hackadayOct 1, 2025

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

Show threadCourt Cantrell does not complyOct 1, 2025
@hackaday I haven't heard that sound in...20 years? And yet with every beat, I knew what the next sound would be. It's like hearing a piece of music missing since your childhood. 😆🤣
Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply

@hackaday I explained to my 13yo how we had to *tell* computers to connect to the Internet.

13yo: that's like the Dark Ages

me: and when we told them to connect, this is what we heard *every* time...
*plays the dial-up sound clip*

13yo *looking worried, then increasingly horrified* it sounds like it's breaking...exploding! Mama, turn it off, you're scaring the cats!

😆🤣

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Show threadSym (public node) Oct 1, 2025
@courtcan "we could eventually turn off the sound if we wanted, but it told us if it would fail to connect before it actually failed."
"it could fail?"
"all the time. and if your grandmother picked up the phone, it would just boot me off"
@hackaday
Show threadMoriel 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 1, 2025

@courtcan @hackaday

I saw a thing a while ago that said something like "In the 90's, when we connected to the Internet, our computers would scream at us, but we failed to heed the warnings."

Show threadcyploOct 2, 2025
@courtcan @hackaday computers screamed in pain, they knew what was to become of the internet