[Dalewyn]

I pity the youngsters who will never be able to mentally playback the dialup sound.

[piyush_soni]

I still remember the small adrenaline rush we had as soon as we would detect the tone for a successful connection.

[noisy_boy]

I remember installing Mandrake Linux on my PC (via CD ordered online as magazines still hadn't started to include the CDs). I had the dial-up line and the modem but didn't know how to set it up as I was new to both Linux and dial-up. So I used to print the steps from websites/mail groups at office to try them at home. Initially I couldn't make it work and had no choice but to wait to get to office the next day to start again.

Finally I read a bunch of docs about how to talk to the modem and eventually I managed to do the correct steps and the modem produced its sweet handshake tone and the indicator lights started to blink - it was such a pure joy to finally be online from Linux!

[lapama]

That instant was unique for human-tech interaction. Perhaps comparable with becoming positively viral, but at small scale.

[atoav]

I grew up after that sound, but I can mentally play back a dialup sound purely because it is used in every second show, podcast, documentary on computers.

[mertysn]

reminds me of two 17-year-olds attempt at using a rotary phone (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok

[matematico]

Same here! I played it in my mind while looking at the picture. Wow, we're so old school!

[rjh29]

I wonder what the equivalent sound is now?

[bargle0]

Not sound, but visual: The moment the video stream goes from blurry to crisp.

[rjh29]

"This was back when chatbots weren't actually intelligent and used to spout out random nonsense"

[capableweb]

The opposite, connections that drop or slow down, the sound of music that is buffering or got automatically downgraded to the worst available quality.

[luxcem]

There is still a lot of emblematic sounds, the skype calling sound, netflix loud bang bang, the iMessage or messenger notification pop sound, etc.

But there are all from company sound design and the same experience as the dial up sound.