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A recent post by someone else regarding dial-up made me wonder: Why did it have that specific, trademark noise when connecting?? What was the purpose of that? It's not like it was useful or anything, right?

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    It was so you could hear if there was an error whilst trying to connect to the other modem.
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    @MikeyAlder @norman70688 As in that it wasn't a prerecorded sound? Because that's always been my impression since it sounded exactly the same every time. :/
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    @Navigatr no it was not prerecorded but since it was the handshake snd speed negotiation it should sound almost the same when things work.

    But when there was a problem you could hear differences and the main reason it was audible was incase you called the wrong number and the other “modem” sounded “hello ?” :D
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    They had a jandshake and decided their speed
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    @norman70688 ++, you posted it so I didn't have to search for it.
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    @Voxera @norman70688 That's really interesting! :D I'll check out the link later when I have the time to sit down with it. I guess that in my defense in terms of not knowing; I was only in my pre-teens when we still had dial-up. (We got broadband around that time, probably because mom got sick of me continuously hogging the phone line to play flash games.)
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