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 ...

When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone hanging up? Or the screech of a modem coming to life? They're the sounds we lived with for decades and once represented cutting ...

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...