Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for September 09, 2018

I’ve heard dial tones on a phone being used as a musical instrument. Big businesses might get into a bidding war for numbers that play famous songs.

Marigold is not wrong actually.

Oh, those were the days in which I lived (the dial-up Internet). (Imagine Michael Winslow of “Space Balls” and “Police Academy” doing that sound effect if this strip were animated.)

Did Marigold ever had to work with AOL Dialup by chance? :)

It was more like PRRRRRR OEOEOEOOEOEOE SCREEEEEEEECH RRRRRRRRRR WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKK.At least the v23 was.

I’ve been through dial up. Glad I never need to go through that again.

As always, I LOVE Marigold’s weird facial expressions.

At an old job I used to have, I’d occasionally whistle until the acoustic coupler responded. I like to think I was driving it crazy.

He forgot the “Bong Bong!”It won’t connect without the “Bong Bong!”

Why didn’t he just get on YouTube and play the “modem mating call?”

Glad we’re in agreement, Marigold.

And then you change the handshake to renegotiate from 300 baud to 450 and watch the text fly by!

We must remember, when the internet and dial-up came out, we thought it was fantastic and cutting edge.

Being in this generation, I want to know what dial-up was, but at the same time I don’t.

This is a tech joke, right? ;D (Yeah, yeah, I know that’s ‘Nancy’ snark. Tough.) ;)

That’s a sound you’ll never forget once you’ve heard it!!

I thought he was describing what it sounded like to accidentally call a fax line.

Ah yes, the days when AOL was the only ISP anyone used.

Modem speak! God, I remember this terrible shriek. Possibly my favorite strip to-date, as I worked for a couple of local ISPS and then a cable company that also provides Internet services.

It’s funny, but I recall the early pitch days of this strip, when the first one appeared on Furaffinity, back when I was writing comic books.

You can’t forget this dial-up sound! And the soft soothing melody of the SHRWEEEEEEEEKRWEEEEEEEWEEEEEEWEEEEEE once the connection was established! (Because YES dial-up used to failed. Often.)

And he isn’t kidding. I lived in a duplex that was located betwixt and between cable providers, aka no-cable-land. And the phone service was the lousiest in the area. It took an hour to download 10-Megabytes, so something like a 30Meg Scientific American monthly magazine took 3-hours! I would start it Saturday morning, then do the weekly shopping, laundry, etc, and then maybe it would be done (unless it felt like crashing instead.) Where I am now I have high speed cable/internet, and a direct router to computer connection with Ethernet. Takes 2 or 3 seconds to download a 10Meg file!

Hard to believe those are now considered “prehistoric times” now by the young.

Ahh … dial-up Internet. That takes me back. Quite the memorable sound effects—that’s for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

I remembering a Zits comic from around Y2K where those noises were visualized. I don’t remember it all, but a clown was one of the images.

My first computer was RadioShack’s TRS-80, aka, the Trash80.

I think it probably just completed loading my program about ten minutes ago.

The good old dial up, If someone used the phone while you were down loading all was lost.

I knew what Dad was doing by the second panel.

I remember that tone too well.

ah the sound of my childhood

I do not miss modem pong.

When the first 28.8 modems came out the noises it made were so strange and startling – AND so rare, those puppies were expensive! – that people would record the noise so others could hear it.Gods, I am old.