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Somewhat related: Old post "The sound of the dialup, pictured" https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture... (Biggest HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635144 | 675 points | Nov 2017 | 108 comments, and a few more discussions in https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20sound%20of%20the%20dialu... )

Nice job. I saw something like this a little while ago [1] which showed the Hayes AT-DT command but otherwise was pretty limited. Don't forget to use the Network tools to throttle your connection for a more faithful experience!

Feedback:

- The click sound is absurdly loud.

- Is 31,200 bps a UK thing? I grew up in the era of 14.4, 28.8, and 33.6 kbps.

- You should chop up the audio file so the number of tones matches the number of digits in the phone number field.

[1] - https://dialupmodemsound.com

Oh, nostalgia. I had a US Robotics 56K modem, which produced two bell-alike sounds during handshake. It was cool. I search for that specific sounds for years and cannot find.

The change to authentication happened before the modem negotiation ended, this should be fixed, all it need it's a short delay until the audio ends, and THEN start auth.

Amazing, however when I changed the number I expected an audio recording of some guy answering in the middle of the night over a modem negotiation sound

After getting excited that you could change the phone number the fact that it did not beep it was a little let down. I wonder if the shown default number matches the number in the audio at all?

Anyways, cool project and I like the easy to remember domain.

Very nice!

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the lights of the icon computers light up for transmitting and receiving?

I don't know if this was an indian thing but we'd get a dopamine hit type tone at the end and that's not present in this audio.

So good. But 31kbps? Wow. You guys were spoilt. 28.8 is the best we got and on a very good day when the lines were nice and dry. I think he even nailed the link upgrade sound on the modem.

The AOL version missed an opportunity: After connecting it should have said, "You've got mail!"

it felt suddenly expensive to be online again...

Ah good old dial up days in early 2000s. Browsing means the phone cannot be used for calling.

:)

i don't know if its the mandela effect but the sound is not accurate.

i was expecting web browser after dialup :(

I’ve tried to explain my kid how we went online back in the days. Need to show this to her.

I need to press "Stop" before all images fully load

I wanted the AOL one to say "Welcome" before "you've got mail!" lol

Sucks that we don’t have these kind of little rituals today. Everything is just always on. This kind of thing sounds like you were blasting off into the future, your day was divided between offline and online, and this was you crossing the barrier to the next world.

Great

Just needs a pulse dialing option ;)

Guess I don’t have any mail :(

https://theoldnet.com and https://protoweb.org, try their proxy on legacy machines and have fun travelling in time.

Also: https://wiby.me

This is a masterpiece

Now do minicom and pppd!