When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone hanging up? Or the screech of a modem coming to life? They're the sounds we lived with for decades and once represented cutting ...

If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Modems can be noisy when they dial up and connect to a remote location. Maybe you work late at night and don't want to wake anyone up or maybe the modem sounds just drive you crazy! Whatever the ...

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 ...

You should hear a dial tone, then the modem dialing the number, a ringing tone from the other end, then the ISP answering. Finally you should hear the familiar squealing sounds as the modems work out ...

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 ...