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The Sound of the Dialup, Pictured

posted by hubie on Monday January 16 2023, @01:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the dialogue-from-a-simpler-time dept.

owl writes:

https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember that it made a peculiar sound. But despite becoming so familiar, it remained a mystery for most of us. What do these sounds mean?

As many already know, what you're hearing is often called a handshake, the start of a telephone conversation between two modems. The modems are trying to find a common language and determine the weaknesses of the telephone channel originally meant for human speech.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday January 17 2023, @03:05AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday January 17 2023, @03:05AM (#1287177)

    when I have to youngun-splain what NO CARRIER means, you are already on two different planes of existence.

    "you had to have a home phone, and it went into this sponge rubber thing. and if anyone picked up in the house, there would be screaming and redialing, not necessarily in that order"

    2nd use of GOML today. wonder what #3 will be.

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