Telephone dial tones are one aspect of modern life that we take for granted, but there is a history there. Wikipedia offers some interesting reading on the subject. Back in 1954 when Bell Telephone, ...

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 ...

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 ...