2015年12月29日 · Dialup modems literally made a phone call and used sound to communicate data. The earliest, "cradle" modems literally had you put a phone handset on a device with a speaker and a microphone. Later modems plugged into a phone line directly, and didn't need to play anything out loud.

2021年2月22日 · The horrible squechling sound is literally the phone call that your computer would make to the server and them talking back and forth, sending the information they would need in order to connect. As to why we would hear it, theoretically it was for feedback purposes, so you could hear if you got a busy signal, or a wrong number, or something ...

2022年3月14日 · Dial-up was first offered commercially in 1992, and broadband came around in the late 90's. OP might as well have posted "there's an entire generation of people who weren't around for the original airing of Seinfeld ."

The real reason the modem was kept on was because even if the average user couldn't intuit the specific meaning of the sounds (it would be a very rare user among the millions of dial-up subscribers that would lean back and go "Ah yes, the connection failed at the duplex-negotiation signal") they could definitely hear if it didn't sound like ...

That is the sound that an analog modem sends down the phone line during its "handshake" phase. This is the phase where it identifies that it's a modem, and what kind of speed and protocol it can use. If the other modem is compatible they will …

2022年5月8日 · When I lived at home we had AOL, when I moved out when I was 18 we had Net Zero. I wasn't going to pay for internet when I could get it for free. The notification sound on my phone when I get an email is the AOL "You've got Mail"

2024年6月10日 · lots of places still use fax. they are preexisting tech that costs very little to keep using. anywhere remote that doesnt have fiber or cable but was set up with phone lines ages ago still hang on to dial up internet and fax. my company has a fax machine. its just built into our printer/scanner these days and we save to a digital file instead ...

Not that I would want to go back to dial up speeds and the computer getting disconnected when the phone rang days again, but after learning what the beeee boooop brahhhhhp sounds are, I am kinda missing hearing my modem talking. Kind of like when I switched from AOL to another provider and no longer heard the man say "You've got mail!"

For me it dials up memories of having to wait, wait, wait to get to the Internet. Add to that the fact that dial up really was painfully slow at times. Broadband was a godsend. Thereafter, the dial-up sound triggered feelings of anticipation and frustration, making it unbearable. But now it just reminds me of childhood, so I sort of like it.

2021年2月23日 · The "dialup sound" is a conversation between modems. The first part begins a low bit-rate connection where the modems exchange an initial summary of their capabilities, even this is a bootstrap procedure stepping up through different encodings/modulations but staying at 300 bps initially.