Kids these days won’t experience the dialup days…
dial-tone seven-digit number beeps ringing 20-30 seconds of dialup modem connecting noises
The moment you forgot the speakers were turned up from listening to The Offspring earlier
WELCOME!
YOU’VE GOT MAIL!
Rip, legend
I’m not super sure that many people even know what this is.
I’ve never even used AOL mail and I still know exactly what the notification sounds like.
I was born in the 2000’s and didn’t have an email account until 2012, and even I know what it sounds like.
…am I old? I know it’s no longer part of pop culture, but it was one of the first things I can remember where technology became part of pop culture.
Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.
What I’m trying to say is, yes, we’re old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.
