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 ...

I just got back upstairs from my neighbors house. He was having trouble connecting up to the Internet with his modem. Whenever he does he gets a crackling noise that comes over the speaker. Plus it ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...