The Sound of dial-up Internet

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wtermini

November 29th, 2020

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I recorded this many years ago on an iMac G3 in 2008, the sound was recorded using the iMac headphone jack into my desktop PC at the times audio in.

I ended up doing this as my DSL went down for several days and I managed to get netzero working.

I then uploaded the video to Youtube where it has received over 10 Million Views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

In 2012 a wonderful poster was made by Oona Räisänen, if you want a technical breakdown of what's going on in my audio have a read. http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html.

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america
communications
dial
dial-up
dtmf
imac
internet
modem
phone
telephone
telephony
tone

Type

Mp3 (.mp3)

Duration

0:28.673

File size

448.7 KB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bitrate

128 kbps

Channels

Stereo

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watcrub

4 years, 1 month ago

thanks

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kranstondeut...

4 years, 8 months ago

so nostalgic I laughed out loud!!

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Rogge

4 years, 9 months ago

thank you, awsome sound

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Alex_hears_t...

4 years, 10 months ago

Brings back so many memories of netscape, CompuServe and the encarta encyclopaedia. Thanks for putting this up!

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nwanstall

5 years ago

Perfect, thank you!

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