Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Dial-up

Oooooh boy, who remembers this? I found a video online recently (I'll post it at the bottom) of a recording of the old dial-up sound. It felt like a blast from the past and I immediately remembered trying to use AOL on my Windows 95 computer. This was the pinnacle of our technology of the time and everyone was fascinated by all the web pages and interesting content.

The reason I'm posting this really is because I was having a conversation the other day with a younger friend of mine, and I had to actually explain to her what Dial-up was. I had to explain that you couldn't use the phone and be online at the same time, and that you had to sit through a minute of jumbled noise just to be "online". Downloading a 30 second movie clip would take well over an hour. How old do you feel knowing that there are people alive now, and will be born in the future that won't recognize this wonderful sound?




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38 comments:

  1. Aaron M. GipsonApril 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    As irritating as it is, that sound once heralded a brand new shore. And yeah, oh yeah, I remember AOL running on Win95 and thinking I was living in Star Trek world at the time.

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  2. GraftedApril 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    Total nostalgia

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  3. PotholderzApril 12, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    God i do not miss that noise at all.

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  4. LichApril 12, 2011 at 8:27 PM

    I listened to it for so many years pretty much everyday that I can imitate it in real life.

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  5. BennyBeatzApril 12, 2011 at 8:35 PM

    nostalgic indeed....... :/ also very frustrating haha

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  6. AdminApril 12, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    I can't believe this is how it used to work.

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  7. T. Roger ThomasApril 12, 2011 at 9:09 PM

    (Yelling to another room in the house) Mom, are you off the phone yet? I wanna start AOL.

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  8. AnonymousApril 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM

    I was happy to hear that sound before, I was about to enter the WEB! that was a big thing to do.

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  9. christophersonApril 12, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    nice. nostalgia. following.

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  10. CPHApril 12, 2011 at 10:19 PM

    This is some serious nostalgia.

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  11. BMApril 12, 2011 at 11:31 PM

    connecting to the internet sounded like a cartoon, and the sister was yelling for the phone. This were great days

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  12. derApril 13, 2011 at 6:49 AM

    Oh man... that initial DING DING DING DING PSHHHHHH is so recognizable.

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  13. MarianApril 13, 2011 at 7:00 AM

    of course we remember!

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  14. SeanApril 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM

    Kids these days. Don't have any respect for the dial-up noise

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  15. i.MoApril 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    nice

    incredible-mo.blogspot.com

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  16. UnknownApril 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    I barely remember this. Mostly I remember wanting to call my friends and my dad was ALWAYS on the internet.

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  17. SkengApril 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Man I hated that noise. I started hearing it again randomly the other day.

    Followed :)

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  18. The Rev. ArchimedesApril 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    haha the good ol days!

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  19. MuteMath FanApril 13, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    I'm pretty sure this sound is engrained forever in my brain.

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  20. FizzyfaceApril 13, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    Horrible.

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  21. Adam DavisApril 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    Ooooh man. That takes me waaaaaaay back. Awesome

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  22. XPSMcLarenApril 13, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    I want to know what it looks like through a Spectrogram

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

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  23. TristanApril 13, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    that takes me back to the 90s super fast

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  24. tissue rejectionApril 13, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    Dial up noise always bothered me :P

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  25. ZApril 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    ahhh yes, good times

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  26. Adi AvishalomApril 13, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    I'm 16 and I already feel cool knowing that I lived through "The Dial-up Age".

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  27. Fishy CorporationApril 13, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    I still remember exactly how they sound, good old dialup

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  28. LemmiwinksApril 13, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    reminds me of
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1AQcGGSec&feature=related

    hahaha

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  29. PlaySafeApril 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    There are kids who wont know what a home phone is :|
    I feel old

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  30. AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Brings back painful memories of slow connections, blocked telephone lines and high bills.

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  31. n0kS Phr33d0mApril 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    Oh man, I put to play the video and I was like singing the sound before it sounded. I have that written deep inside my brain :D

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  32. A Beer for the ShowerApril 13, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    Ah, yes. The days when you actually had to go a video store to buy pornography. Well, somebody did. I was on the cusp.

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  33. TheStamosApril 13, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    god, so horrible. How terrible, now looking back so many years later.

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  34. Blog HuntApril 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    dial up... haha!

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  35. AlisonApril 13, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    Wow. xD

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  36. ruinzApril 14, 2011 at 1:44 AM

    Nostalgia much?
    How to Hack Life.

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  37. Butcher BradleyApril 20, 2011 at 4:09 PM

    Haha, oh the memories flow in.

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  38. qwertyApril 21, 2011 at 1:17 AM

    56k

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