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Ah, for the days when I used to run home from school and race to the family computer before my brother or my dad could get there, and having to physically disconnect the phone cable from the telephone and plug it into the modem.
I remember running the 56k phone modem as often as I could, because when it was on my boss couldn’t ring me up to ask me to work. ;P
I remember logging in with the old 56k modem…
It took a minute while today with an up to date modem it takes a second or less to load up firefox….
But back then it was a glorious and divine moment to just sit there,wait and listen to the sound of the dial up modem.
Even though its not that long ago,i consider this highly nostalgic!!
Bah, 56k? The only I had before broadband was 14.4k
Bah, 14.4k? My first modem was 2400bps. My friend had a 300bps modem.
Bah, 300bps? My first modem was -56k. It destroyed information.
-56k? You we’re lucky. We had an’ auld TV we glued pages of playboy onto an’ that were internets laddie!
Plus we lived in a hole in the ground covered with a sheet of tarpaulin.
Bah, tarpaulin. In my day, we had to walk in 10 feet of snow, uphill both ways for bathroom smut.
You forgot to add the fun, but oh so annoying problems when you only had one phone line. Like the odd freezes playing Quake 2 online when you realized your mother had just picked up the phone and disconnected you.
Better yet was getting a wrong number or fax machine.
Blast from the ass
That noise meant Doom deathmatch or Duke Nukem 3d deathmatch coming on. Even better if you had 2 lines and talked while playing. Who needs VOIP gaming?
I always wondered about that sound.
But yeah, that was a sound of the 90’s for me. If I had to sum up the mid/late 90’s with a sound that would be it for me.
Absolutely agree with the “Welcome” and “You’ve Got Mail.” Until I replaced the YGM sound to a war yell “Incoming!” circa version 4.0. Stayed with that until I left around 8.0. Ah, good times.
When I was 10 my father gave me my first modem.. A 2400 external that I kept underneath my pillow and lovingly carted back and forth between my bed and the computer any time I wanted to go online.
What makes it even more awesome is that I’m female.
Why did you have to carry it back and forth? My first modem was 2400bps external too (were there internal ones?!) and I’m female too, but we just left it attached to the computer!
To be honest, the sound always annoyed the hell out of me, I’d cover my ears. Ironically, I became partially deaf many years later, and the dial-up modem sounds are not nearly as interesting anymore. I hear them, but I don’t cringe in horror. And THAT is something I miss!
My father gave me the modem because I was always rather sick and had a lot of trouble sleeping. He gave it to me so that I could be online in the middle of the night without my mother knowing.. Though how she ever slept through the dialup sounds I will never know.
Dear God, 56k? Quake? Children, children. 1200bps playing Trade Wars on the local BBS, before anybody outside DARPA and academia had heard the term “Internet”. Now that was good times.
Okay no, it actually sucked. The future is much better.
meh. I never got into Trade Wars. I preferred Legend of the Red Dragon and Usurper. A buddy of mine had “NO CARRIER” burned into his monitor.
There’s only one thing funnier than video. Those idiots still using dial-up. hahaa
Can you believe there are still places that don’t have broadband at all?
More than that, There are still places that have to dial a long distance number to connect to even dial up!
My grandfather lives in the backwoods of Ohio and he just got cable out there about two years ago. XD
i remember in middle school our computer teacher showing us this amazing thing called the “internet”. you could talk to other people on the computer!! amazing! i swear to god they hooked a phone reciver up to a modem. but i could have dreamed that, it was over 20 years ago.
Nope, you’ve got it right–the modem had two cavities, to fit the the ear and mouthpieces.
The phone, of course, was hardwired instead of wireless.
Mind you, I still remember the day when a phone prefix wasn’t the area code, it was something like Hudson or Westmore, so a phone number could be HU3-2700.
I replaced the YGM sound with “*Whoop! Whoop!* Mail’s in!” from the Addams Family.
LMAO – I was just making that noise last night!!! NO LIE MY PARENTS STILL USE AOL DIAL UP!!!!! Its sooooooo slow! It takes me 10 minutes to check my email — EVEN LONGER IF I WANT TO READ THEM! LOL
I went straight from no computer to “real” internet. am feeling smug… oh yes!
Same thing for me, I would ocassionally play things like Sim City and Tetris on the computer though, and ZZT. DOS games are under-rated.
But I hated calling someone and getting those sounds, even though there is something melodious about them.
Was totaly playing Sim Safari last night…
Are sims nostalgic yet?
That’s a good question. I certainly feel nostalgic when I see the Sims 1 or the old Sim City game. It’s technology, so it becomes nostalgic much faster than other things. I’d say yes, for the old sims games.
And SimTower, used to have that for Mac.
I actually use that noise as my ring tone. For some reason I always try to boot up Quake 1 when my phone rings for some direct tcp/ip DM goodness with my firends.
so do I! xD
I used to sing along to that tune myself when I lived in the appartment in my parents basement. Got pretty good too. It was fun, freaking people out downtown with that and other, creepier noises.
I remember when you had to pay for AOL by the minute (after using up the monthly allottment). One month in 1995, I racked up $200 in AOL charges!
Oh lord, I remember before AOL, I must be oooold!
heh, I STILL have 52k dial-up. it’s slow, but it will get you where you need to go. (unless where you’re trying to go has flash ads, God help you if they have flash ads)
I used to be able to lip-sync along with the modem noises. Tragic!
I’m transported back to the mid-late 90s, chatting online at “The Park” . . . *cringe*
AOL is still around?
Monkey Dust video, awesome xD
Oh no the last time I used Dial-Up it took over a minute to even download 100-500 kb. I remember when I wanted to download something. I swear. 500MB would of taken over 100 hours.
I did however enjoy using dial-up for my Dreamcast by Sega.
anyone here play space invaders and that eagle lander (can’t remember the name) on the green screened computers? I went from that, to dial-up, to DSL
I remember that game, another classic win. Another favorite was Hoyle Classic Card games, I played it on a computer that was one piece, monitor, computer and keyboard. No mouse… XD