During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ ...
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Why modems had to make noise to work
Those strange dial up modem sounds were not random noise but a real conversation between computers. This video explains how early internet connections used phone lines to negotiate speed reliability ...
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How Dial-Up Modems Used Sound to Talk to Each Other
Those chaotic screeches of dial-up weren’t random — they were data, tones encoding handshakes, carrier signals, and sync pulses that connected millions before broadband existed. Tropical Storm Melissa ...
WASHINGTON — The sound that defined the early days of the internet is going silent forever. AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet service on Tuesday, ending more than three decades of the iconic ...
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