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 ...

"The sound only starts when call answering is enabled in the Modem control panel. The problem exists with all G4 Digital Audio machines; not just the 667 and up. I have been able to replicate this ...

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 ...

Assuming that the modem device has voice capability, you may be able to use the appropriate ATtention sequence to send ADPCM-encoded audio samples to the modem, which will then generate the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Oona Räisänen, Creative Commons Photo credit: . Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype ...

Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. That iconic sing-song modem handshake tone will soon be heard no more after Telstra announced plans ...

QUESTION: All sound works fine for games, alerts etc. The moment my modem starts to dial, all game, Web page music and alert sounds no longer work. Media player is unaffected. When attempting to ...