Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic remembers the sound of a dial-up modem so fondly that he has scoured the internet to find out exactly what all those grating tones meant. Alexis Madrigal at The ...

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

QUESTION: All sound works fine for games, alerts etc. The moment my modem starts to dial, all game, Web page music and alert sounds no longer work. Media player is unaffected. When attempting to ...

If the modem can’t get a dial tone, there may be a problem with your phone jack; unplug the modem and plug in a normal phone instead. If the phone works, there’s a problem with the modem or the cable ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. That iconic sing-song modem handshake tone will soon be heard no more after Telstra announced plans to switch off its dial-up service.

Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain ...

QUESTION: On my Windows 98 computer, I get an "error 680, there is no dial tone," when I try to use my modem. There is no handshake sound, but there was previously ...

Mac OS: Sharing Files With Windows-Based Computers TIL article #31318 discusses different ways of sharing files between Mac OS- and Windows-based computers. Mac OS 9.1: No Sound From Internal Modem ...