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Modem Dial Tones

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This is a thought that makes me sad: We are the first and last and only generation to every know what a modem dial-up sounds like. Play that sound sixty years ago and it would be new and unheard of. Play that sound sixty years in the future and maybe if your hearing aid is in and you haven't been sent off to the near death star you'll be able to identify it, but in all probability it'll be gone. And no-one will believe you anyway, that one day you lived in a time where you had to wait for the internet to appear.

Also secretly right now I'm listening to a Postal Service song that I downloaded through an online McFly recommendation.

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Mark wrote this at 17:21, Sat, 11/11/06, Link
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Sheepie

That is the one thing I miss about dial-up... ah memories.

Written by Sheepie at 21:06, Sat, 11/11/06

Neil

That makes me want to go and try dial up one more time while I still can.

Written by Neil at 08:47, Sun, 12/11/06

Sarah Rules

Mcfly. Haha. Wicked Cool.

Written by Sarah Rules at 18:38, Sun, 12/11/06

No. Haha. Really no. ;o)

Written by Anonymous at 23:50, Sun, 12/11/06

Mark

I'd like to say that I already ♥ the Postal Service. I just hadn't heard that remix until Harry recommended it to me.

Written by Mark at 10:19, Mon, 13/11/06

Matthew

What remix, and where do I get it? :)

Written by Matthew at 16:27, Tue, 14/11/06

Matthew

What remix, and where do I get it? :)

Written by Matthew at 16:28, Tue, 14/11/06

Matthew

Nuts. Super-fast university broadband isn't all it's cracked up to be...

Written by Matthew at 16:29, Tue, 14/11/06

Mark

iTunes -> Music Store -> Celebrity Playlists -> McFly -> All Songs -> Etc... Or just search for "nothing better (styrofoam remix)"

Written by Mark at 20:15, Tue, 14/11/06

martin montgomery

Hi Mark,

Just thought about you the other day and thought I'd look up your blog. Hope things in London are going good - and I am happy you blogged about dial up, cos that thought never occured to me.

So is dial up dead now then?

Written by martin montgomery at 17:19, Wed, 15/11/06

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