It was the soundtrack of the early internet: When AOL dial-up users wanted to go online in the 1990s, they heard the instantly recognizable sequence of beeps and buzzes. The cacophony indicated that ...

In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet technology, offering laughable ...

In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a computer in those days required ...

Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...