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 ...

Many years ago, before there was much broad access to this Internet thing, I was a heavy BBS'er. There was a service during those days, that let you dial into it, connect to a remote modem in far away ...

My coworker is putting together a win2k machine to dial into our kvm to ip unit here in the office from home. I gave him an old Tyan Tomahawk A+ motherboard I wasn't using, and everything seems to ...

Starting Monday, Boston residents will have to dial 10 digits for all calls, both long distance and local. At Boston University, students will still be able to dial only the final five digits for ...

Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. It's like a dog whistle. It's emblazoned on my brain. You all know what I'm talking about. Unless you're way too young and you're intent on making me ...

The sound of a1990s dial-up modem is music to some composers' ears. Do you remember the sound of a dial-up modem? Kind of R2D2 and Darth Vader all rolled up into one gurgly, bloop-bleep bridge of ...

Having duplicate modem scripts in both the System Library folder (System/Library/Modem Scripts) and the user Library folder (user/Library/Modem Scripts) under Mac OS X 10.2.x can cause external and ...