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[_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)01:59 No.1992698
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:05 No.1992701
You know what's scary? There's some kids on this board now who have no idea what the shit this is
about.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:08 No.1992702
The troubles we had to go through to download a 20kb picture of a nude woman.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:25 No.1992712
When I was a kid and first heard this, I was told that it was the "signal bouncing off satellites
in space."
Is any of that true?
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:27 No.1992714
>>1992712
>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:35 No.1992721
>>1992712
It was Sonic going through Final Rush.
>>1992701
That does scare me, honestly.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:37 No.1992724
>>1992702
I feel like these may have been the faces I made as that 20kb slowly revealed its self to me.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:44 No.1992731
>>1992712
Whoever told you that was probably a moron.
This sound is what is known as a Handshake. It's a signal used for a computer to indicate to
another that it'd like to form a connection. You can briefly here a point where there are two
sources overlapping -- this is where the dialing modem and the receiving modem are negotiating
the connection. Lots of other little details are shared in all that noise.
Your modern networking still uses these signals, but we don't hear them anymore because we no
longer connect computers over a phone line. The shitty audio quality of a phone line made it
difficult to communicate complex information quickly, which is part of the reason why dial up
modems are slow.
Theoretically, it's possible to bounce the signal across satellites, but no more possible than
dialing any other phone number.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)02:50 No.1992736
>>1992731
I have never broken it down and though about it, but if we still use the handshake signal do we
still get that noise? Or was that noise strictly due to the utter shit that is phone line.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)03:02 No.1992746
>>1992736
It's partly because of the shitty quality of the phone line -- but it's also predominantly
because it was a phone line at all.
We only used phones because it was an existing network we could piggyback signals across.
Unfortunately, phones are an analog transmission, and computers can't make heads or tails of
analog data. That's where the modem comes in. It's a translating device. It could convert the
computer's digital signal into an analog signal (binary code to screechy audio) and back again.
It all happens fairly fast, because even 56 kilobaud modems were transmitting a pretty
significant amount of data.
The noise is technically still around, for the most part, because it's non-audio data treated as
audio. If you were to isolate the TCP/IP connection handshake prototcol, and open it in an audio
program (which would take a little cheating) it would sound at least something like the 56k
modems did.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)03:16 No.1992757
>>1992746
That last bit is kinda cool. I imagine the sound would be sped up compared to the old 90s one we
are all familiar with. I wish I knew more about internet connection and communications. In the
time of dial up I was in highschool, and at that point I didn't care about the how, just the
eventual tits I would find.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)03:47 No.1992778
rip in peace eddswrold
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)03:48 No.1992779
>>1992721
nice reference
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)04:56 No.1992825
Why is this so fucking funny?
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)06:56 No.1992856
>>1992701
Stop making me feel old
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)07:09 No.1992861
>>1992746
Actually, part of the reason dialup was so slow was due to bandwidth constraints. Not noisy lines.
Analog phone service was only designed with human voice transmission in mind. Thus, the bandwidth
you could expect on a phone line was about 10 kHz. More than enough for human voice, but not
enough for extremely high speed data.
High speed cable and aDSL modems are not restricted in speed because they receive and transmit
data directly on frequencies much higher than what they could reasonably do over regular analog
phone service.
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)07:17 No.1992866
dat nostalgia
>> [_] !a.JYHERO.U 06/04/13(Tue)07:57 No.1992879
>>1992698
i set this as my mothers ringtone for some time. She said she missed this sound lol
>> [_] !a.JYHERO.U 06/04/13(Tue)07:58 No.1992880
"Thank you for using American Online"
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
Now i feel old >_>
>> [_] Anonymous 06/04/13(Tue)08:23 No.1992893
I want my computer to play this whenever I connect to the internet currently :/
