Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital ...

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 ...

Remember modems? No, not cable modems or DSL modems, which are more technically network bridges. I’m talking real, honest-to-goodness analog modems, the kind that actually made noise. The kind where, ...

"The term 'online' originally meant 'immediately available on a computer," Chen wrote, explaining why Windows 3.0 (which was ...

Have you noticed a certain nagging familiarity about dubstep? Something that perhaps the core audience is too young to recognize? Well, get ready to have that itch scratched. An artist who works under ...

You know what’s missing from technology these days? Sound. We have noises but no sound. We open our laptops and we’re automatically connected to Wi-Fi. Our phones only squeak for alerts, they don’t ...

"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 ...