Once upon a time, going onto the internet was a journey through sound. Before all our phones were online all the time, before there were wifi connections in houses, planes, libraries, and coffee shops, we were logged off before we made the conscious decision to log on. Doing so meant listening to familiar dial tones, then a series of mysterious bleeps and bloops, and finally a loud static-y crash that sounded like a radio stuck between stations (if you remember that sound too).

Man, I knew what this article was about before I even finished the title. And I knew what every paragraph would say before I read it. And I knew what every modem would sound like when I saw the description in the video.

But... when I heard modem sounds #2 and #3... the chills of visceral recognition I got up my spine, were CRAZY!

Like KB said, I wanna make #2 my new ringtone on my iPhone Xs.

posted 1646 days ago