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Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by neilpomerleau on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:04PM (#44843472)
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by gregsadetsky on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:13PM (#44843763)
I like this explanatory graphic (after many many years of listening to the dialup sounds) - https://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png

And this version combining the graphic and the sound used to make the graphic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo

And this alternative version (h/t @Kye): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMrTxMV6E4

Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by dylan604 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @01:39AM (#44844284)
Your link had a "slower" version, but I always like the really slow version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2v32xCD0Y

Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by maxbond on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:08PM (#44843491)
Thanks for making that! Boy is that more annoying than I remembered.
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by twilightzone on Friday August 08, 2025 @10:36PM (#44843627)
That's subjective! I made a song with that sound in 1998. It was called "Net Pet" and it did pretty well on mp3.com.
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by atribecalledqst on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:19PM (#44856673)
There's a hip-hop song I like that uses the dial-up sound as a motif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhOWslHDSs

The dial-up sound just evokes that early Internet feel so perfectly...

Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by firesteelrain on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:03PM (#44843734)
I’d just nod my head to the sound
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by altairprime on Saturday August 09, 2025 @12:44AM (#44844087)
It sounded a lot less enthusiastically piercing through a speaker embedded inside a steel computer :)
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by pogue on Saturday August 09, 2025 @01:12AM (#44844176)
Re:Dial-up Internet to be discontinued by kbr2000 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @08:31AM (#44846017)
lol, reminds me of this Monkey Dust one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2j_hXHEjX4