Article 5Q4MX I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound

I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound

by
Whitney Kimball
from Gizmodo on (#5Q4MX)
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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 sound symbolizes the limits of what whole generations had agreed was basically tolerable to get online.

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