Sorry 4 giving your woes a heart.
We are the same.
Internet signal & phone signals bottoming out repeatedly.
Feels like going back in time to ‘dial up’ days.
(You younglings might need to google that term)
Beep boop shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh beep.
Those "handshakes took sooo long.
I think Brian Eno said something about how a new technologies kinks and flaws will be the thing people remember and love it for and try to emulate once it’s gone.
I feel that way about the old dial-up sound
I was 56k from 97 to 04
The dial up sound also acted as a parental lock because there was no way you were sneaking online without someone hearing it.
At work I sat next to the first server and modem the office had. As a DaVinci email was sent or arrived, I heard the sound.
Interestingly, one email error sent me (as admin) a record of the to and from members). I was the first in the region to know of a developing relationship between employees in two different cities. (The young woman at my site asked me to keep the knowledge secret and I did. They later married.)
Listening to it after so long, if I heard something like this now, I would panic and wonder what was about to quit.
From our wonderful Ashker NMS in the French part of the community on x.com
Good find!
Oh, wait. Is that in-game or a mod ad?
Ray plays on PS5.
… Looks like the living ship is caught in a celestial whirlpool!
I can just hear it going “Wheeeeeee!”