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kleinbl00 · 1646 days ago · link · · parent · post: A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops defined the early days of the internet
That said, you may have found my new ringtone.Denizens of the early internet learned how to read those sounds; like old farmers, they could use their senses to figure out if their data harvest would be fast or slow. After all, while a great technical achievement, those strange-sounding noises were the sound of something essentially simple: your desktop computer almost literally talking to a remote computer across a phone line.