If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain ...

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers the sound of a dial-up modem so fondly that he has scoured the internet to find out exactly what all those grating tones meant. Alexis Madrigal at The ...

Those strange dial up modem sounds were not random noise but a real conversation between computers. This video explains how early internet connections used phone lines to negotiate speed reliability ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Oona Räisänen, Creative Commons Photo credit: . Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype ...