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 ...

Uhhh. Define crackling noise. It's not a modem noise is it? Because I've known modems to output their sound through the speakers, in which case you'd have to turn the sound down or off through the ...

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 ...

The days of waiting and hearing the somewhat irritating modem-connection sound to get on the Internet are over for many businesses.But a few still stick to the old ways, opting for a less expensive ...