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.

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 ...

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 used to ‘surf'.

Two Intel researchers have a fix, though. Intel has patented a technology that pairs wireless devices using audible sounds, in much mating sounds made by dial-up modems in the 1980s and '90s.