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 ...

That channel monopoly was essential, because the dial-up sound, rather than being a side effect, was the actual conversation between modems; any non-modem audio would just interfere with the signal.

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 ...

I'm talking, of course, about the noises your dial-up modem made when hooking up to the internet back when the internet was this terrifying thing we… It's like a dog whistle. It's emblazoned on ...