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 ...

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Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...

QUESTION: On my Windows 98 computer, I get an "error 680, there is no dial tone," when I try to use my modem. There is no handshake sound, but there was previously ...

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