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myrmepropagandist“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”
I don’t remember where I heard this, it’s been on my mind as of late.
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦@futurebird Can’t imagine why. 🤦♂️
Paul Chambers🚧@futurebird In retrospect, that should have been a warning. lol
Michael BuschThat was being shared around a lot lately with AOL's finally discontinuing dial-up service.
La mère tume@futurebird I think I saw that on the fediverse a few months ago? My memory is pretty shitty though I don't trust it
shom@futurebird the siren song of the internet was a dial-up modem screeching but we threw caution to the wind and now we're heading towards a wreck!
Mu@futurebird now we get nostalgic when we hear those screams...
The sounds were uploaded to YouTube, allowing you to remember the nostalgia (but without the long download times)
Dial Up Internet Sound ( Funny)
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@futurebird they still scream if you listen to the raw data they are sending and receiving, we have just muffled their cries
James Wells@futurebird
I listened quite a bit so I could figure out what speed I was connecting at and t make sure the reflectors disengaged correctly.
I listened quite a bit so I could figure out what speed I was connecting at and t make sure the reflectors disengaged correctly.
Alexander ShendiI bet someone like (say) Stephen King could make a horror story out of that.
NKT@futurebird And my, how we laughed and clapped our hands at how clever we were, forcing them to talk to each other!
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.B.)@futurebird They tried to warn us...
llewelly@futurebird In the beginning, computers screamed at the void.
webhat
JD@futurebird When humans built the next generation of DSL and cable modems, we did not give them a mouth, so they could no longer complain.
Michael Gemar@futurebird I Have No Modem and I Must Scream
Fjord In Progress@futurebird @vlrny We first mistook it for ooohing and aaahing, then came the realization it was screaming
Paul Cantrell@futurebird
I cannot tell you how much I love this post
I cannot tell you how much I love this post
BigLinter@futurebird in my day there was no internet...
Ruby@futurebird I don't remember who I stole this from
Whiskers 🇦🇺@Rubelicious @futurebird But that screaming is still used as the ultimate training exercise for impersonators and standup comedians
Matt HallThat's right... Sing the song of my people! <3
Mr. Bruno 
@Rubelicious @futurebird Music to my ears!
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@Rubelicious When I first used the internet, you had to fit the handset of the phone into a pair of rubber cups on the modem.
Muro deGrizecoFound a 300 baud acoustic modem once along with a VT-100 terminal, at a thrift store.
Got it to work, played with it a bit, then gave it to a friend on a limited income, who used it to connect to a community unix system for email.
Maybe in the late 80s?
She was so thrilled.
Said her cat hated the modems screaming and bid under the bed.
Hobbist
WorldTravelerAll7
forced_gump@futurebird I listened. I listened a lot. And I called it music.
Shafik Yaghmour*bong* *bong*
Corvus@futurebird sure we were listening. At least during the connection build up that is. We heard the connection failure way before the dial up software indicated. Aborting and retrying manually, saved us time.
bit101@futurebird now it is us screaming and the computers are silent.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@futurebird
Computers still scream when we connect them to the internet. Because of the advances in technology necessary to get High-speed connectuons, the screams are now so high-pitched that they are beyond the range of human hearing.
(This isn't a joke. It is literally true.)
Computers still scream when we connect them to the internet. Because of the advances in technology necessary to get High-speed connectuons, the screams are now so high-pitched that they are beyond the range of human hearing.
(This isn't a joke. It is literally true.)
@futurebird Gets funnier the more I think about it 😂
Maxilo OveritIf they hadn't followed the screaming with a jaunty "ba-dump-adah-dah!" we might have been warier.
Helgi Crookehorne@futurebird games for ZX Spectrum PCs, from cassette tapes, imagine minutes of screams to play some Bombjack or Lode Runner. Emulators exist now, when you emulate F16C instructions to play Horizon ports from PS5 on a PS4 Pro level PC
@futurebird i just remember this old #meme i made 😊
Krupo@WorldTravelerAll7 @futurebird my mumbling is an act of noble resistance
Bruce Heerssen 
Well, I listened. I confess I took a certain amount of sadistic satisfaction from their anguished cry.
tipjip@futurebird
I recently made their screaming my ringtone. But no one ever calls my and my phone is on silent most of the time anyway. 😢
I recently made their screaming my ringtone. But no one ever calls my and my phone is on silent most of the time anyway. 😢
Plsik (born in 320 ppm)@futurebird My first computer was Windows XP. When I connected it to the internet, it got infected and died.
No, that's a joke. It got infected and became infectious and unusable. Ubuntu cured it.
No, that's a joke. It got infected and became infectious and unusable. Ubuntu cured it.
GachaNoUta
Endless Screaming@anti42 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH