Roger H.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎRemember when we used to dial into the internet, and the machines would scream at us?
That was a warning right?
hobbs@gamingonlinux
core memory of turning off all the ringers on the phones in the house so my parents wouldn't wake up when my buddies and I dialed each other for doom death matches
core memory of turning off all the ringers on the phones in the house so my parents wouldn't wake up when my buddies and I dialed each other for doom death matches
Keith A Van Allen@gamingonlinux HA! RIGHT!!!
KJ6EVV@KeithVanAllen @gamingonlinux okay, look, hangup. Im gonna host. No im gonna host, ok? Bye.
No mom dont pick up the phone!!
No mom dont pick up the phone!!
Simon Brooke@gamingonlinux They were just terrified.
Can you blame them?
Twiteryeanot ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ@gamingonlinux yup! Certainly was, though, if I'm not mistaken, I get the impression it's increased its screaming at us.
sasutina13a is-a sasutina13aAnd they raised their pitch to mostly above human hearing range.
We should have listened.
Luqa ๐ฆThe sound was harvested from a future alternate dimension. All those noises came people in the future screaming at each other because they're so miserable without being able to touch grass.
David J. AtkinsonYes. And only the Telebits said, "pspspspspspsps"
Huubje@gamingonlinux they were screaming. With joy!
@Huubje @gamingonlinux Joy! Yes. Happy modems! Be-Bop de-Boo, EEEEEEE!
I ran a small ISP at the time and often did tech support because it was just me and two other people. In those days, very few people could configure their computer correctly on the first try. It was a rite of initiation to the Internet for them, and eventually they would call tech support. If a customer had a second line, Iโd have them hold a phone up to the modem so I could hear the sound as the modem tried to connect. I was usually able to immediately diagnose and correct their config. When we both heard the happy sounds of a good connection, the customer and I celebrated alongside the modem. 30 years later, I recall the happy sound with fond feelings.
ClaireI worked in a computer store in the '80s. Two gamer brothers came in and bought a 300 baud modem. They were so excited! "We're going to vacuum up the Mages (the best local BBS).
your auntifa liza ๐ต๐ท ๐ฆ ๐ฆฆ@gamingonlinux not even joking, i think about that sound ALL. THE. TIME. that sound created a boundary, a here and there that โlooking back with what we now knowโ, was healthy.
the tech of the last 30 years has been developed by people who not only were not taught to respect other peopleโs boundaries but grew up to resent them and to disrespect them.
sociopaths are people who lack the empathy to respect boundaries. thatโs tech today.
@blogdiva @gamingonlinux The sound was a gateway, a ritual acknowledgment of the boundary.
@meltedcheese @gamingonlinux right?!?!? it really was a reminder that there was a boundary between the two places. even more so, that we had agency over that boundary. that we got to turn it on and off.
0x0@gamingonlinux so you didn't IRC much in the 90s?
@gamingonlinux
I smile when I think that the real firewall of the last millennium was my mother yelling at me to get off the phone because of the astronomical bills. It was a physical limit we have lost.Without the screaming modem and the cost of time we became transparent and always available. Maybe that "hang up now" was the first real #Privacy advice we ever received.
I smile when I think that the real firewall of the last millennium was my mother yelling at me to get off the phone because of the astronomical bills. It was a physical limit we have lost.Without the screaming modem and the cost of time we became transparent and always available. Maybe that "hang up now" was the first real #Privacy advice we ever received.
cstephens2@gamingonlinux "Joshua, what are you doing?"
Elric@gamingonlinux I thought it was a love song? But then I have always been into industrial, noise, and black metal.
SunLocked@gamingonlinux
Only recently did I learn how they developed that sound:
Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:โ (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video How the modem dial-up sound was actually created :neobot_3c: #enough #negative #tech #and #news #timeFor #eyebleach
poetaster@gamingonlinux the sirens may have been screaming but it was secretly a song. at 14400 kbps , I think it was .....
Ganon-dalf@gamingonlinux
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
You've Got Mail!"
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mr_daemon@gamingonlinux It was a welcome, it's when they stopped that we should have taken heed
notthatkindofdoctor@gamingonlinux
The fax machine still yells at me when the spam faxes arrive
The fax machine still yells at me when the spam faxes arrive
draeath@gamingonlinux they still do it, just at radio or infrared frequencies instead of merely audible.
(Coax? it's a radio signal sent down the conductor. Fiber? Modulated infrared sent down the fiber. 5G? Literal radio. Dialup? It was never actually an audio signal, but it was a signal at a low enough speed to be heard and handled by circuitry designed for audio.)
Gustavo@draeath @gamingonlinux Well, before it was a warning, a warning things went right: if you set the modem to a wrong phone number you would hear someone picking the call instead of the handshake.
@gamingonlinux One of the coolest things (at the time) was my shotgun modem for which I had 2 dialup lines. Not only did I have twice the bandwidth of most people, it kept me out of trouble with my wife who could now reach me when I was on the computer. The modem would drop one line to let the call through. But, after the call was over, I had to restart the modem to use both lines again.
Msb@gamingonlinux I made that my ringtone
Ham on WryNow we never log out weโre the ones screaming.
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@gamingonlinux Nah, just the cyberfoxes talking.
Olivia Vespera@gamingonlinux that was my song
Dane Deasy@gamingonlinux they were screaming in terror at our presence.
ZenHeathen ๐จ๐ฆ@gamingonlinux NuurrrrrnurnurnurnurWEEEEEaahhhhhhhWEEahCHushKREushEEushWEEEEahhhh....
Knut ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๐ด๐งธ@gamingonlinux When I as a teenager, I had my own internet connection. A wireless 1.5Mb connection to a WiFi provider I knew. Very a head of the curve. But my parents were/are douchebags and I had to work. My princess sister hasn't worked a day in her life. I never let them use my IP connection. Made them get their own. Fair right? So they get a dialup connection, and the first time my mom used it, she starts screaming thinking the computer was exploding because of the modem noises.
Ken Milmore@gamingonlinux Nah modulation.
MegatronicThronBanks@gamingonlinux Episode of The Pitt tv series refers to them as 'Daemons screaming'
dexterous@gamingonlinux that was peak internet. An hour to download an mp3 from a bot on IRC. Every page you visited was unique. Advertising on the net wasn't a thing yet. You didn't have to maintain 4789 unique login credentials. You weren't known on every page you visited. Freshmeat was the daily "what's new". The ICQ "cuckoo" was always let with anticipation. You could still download the jollyrogers handbook.
ffffennek@gamingonlinux
You mean [this](https://kottke.org/23/04/the-sound-of-a-dialup-modem-visualized-and-explained) or... @scream
You mean [this](https://kottke.org/23/04/the-sound-of-a-dialup-modem-visualized-and-explained) or... @scream
Endless Screaming@0x0 AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH