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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem ...

A while back we dug into setting up a front projection system for that oh so sweet movie experience without the extra sticky floors. Today we're digging into the other side of the electromagnetic ...