13 Tech Sounds You Just Don’t Hear Anymore

zigzag3143 · Jun 15, 2012

In the age of 4G and fiber optics, it’s hard to remember a time when we had to use copper phone lines to dial up to our Internet services. But back in the days of CompuServe and Prodigy, we had to enter a local number into our computer’s dialer and then listen as our 2,400 baud modem dialed the phone, the phone rang, and then the two modems made a long dance of beeps and boings that sounded more like Ricochet Rabbit getting into a gunfight or Fred Flintstone foot-driving his car than two finely tuned computers connecting.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/13-tech-sounds-that-no-longer-exist?slide=4

Laxer · Jun 15, 2012

I believe John still uses all of these sounds :rofl12:

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13 Tech Sounds You Just Don’t Hear Anymore

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13 Tech Sounds You Just Don’t Hear Anymore

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