The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

Re:The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012) by yaml-ops-guy on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:51PM (#26642687)

This was basically an audio coordinate system (or just a 2D array): an X tone and a Y tone played at the same time.

Auditory....Vectors? (Thinking aloud)

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Re:The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012) by femto on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:52PM (#26643022)

The Quadrature Amplitude Modulation used by the modem (the last part of the sequence, which sounds like white noise) really is a sequence of auditory vectors.

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Re:The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012) by gugagore on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:33PM (#26643228)

Humans can't hear a phase difference.

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