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Slow Down… Dial-Up Isn't So Bad

Posted by: Mike Pomranz | June 29, 2011 at 1:00PM

Remember that annoying sound your modem used to make back when you had to "dial in" to the Internet?

Turns out, if you slow that sound down 700%, you get some pretty cool ambient noise worthy of a terrible space movie.

And strangely enough, listening to it feels a lot like how it felt to download something in the 1990s…

As dawn broke over the terrain of this strange new land, slowly light peeked out from beyond the horizon and, bit by bit, the world revealed its bounty of pornography to those patient explorers willing to forge ahead and not have their connection broken by an incoming call…

[via The Daily What]

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