From the Mac startup chime to the dial-up modem handshake, the past few decades have generated some unforgettable sound ...

A developer, stuck working on an airgapped computer, developed a virtual modem for connecting to the internet using HTML5 audio.

My mom just called me tonight telling me that she came home this evening and her home office circuit breaker was tripped. The cable modem is burnt, with visible black marks on the outside of the ...

QUESTION: All sound works fine for games, alerts etc. The moment my modem starts to dial, all game, Web page music and alert sounds no longer work.

-I'm looking to spend $25 shipped on a cd-rw drive for use in my mom's computer... should be at least 16X found-pci firewire card-Also I need a few $1/GB hard drives (between 10GB - 40GB)-cheap ...

the first ten seconds is my movement sound,the second is my breathing of the toxic gas sound and the third is my use of the bio modem sound.To create the movement sound I used my own heavy ...

An artist who works under the precariously spelled name of Muzik 4 Machines has finally taken the grating-but-thrilling sound of a dialup modem and remixed it into a dubstep song.

AOL rolled out its dial-up service in 1989, when lawmakers were focused on closing the "digital divide," the idea that people living in poorer or more rural areas would not have equitable access to ...