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So I was talking with

anoneknewmoose and in the course of one of our typical conversations, I stated:

I'm sure there were teenage boys who got anticipatory hard ons whenever they heard the "EEEE EEEE EEE BA DOING GA DOING" sound

which caused me to wonder:

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is that what you people had in the olden days or something?

This poll isn't FOR you, child. >:(

over half the population born in 1990 is two decades old now :D

I DON'T WANT TO HEAR SUCH THINGS.

Twelve-year-olds?

Born in 1998.

LA LA LA LA LA LA.

(Trufax: half the reason I quit my old summer camp job was the CITs were born the year I started going to camp, and we were getting campers born in the 2000s, and that was THREE YEARS AGO OH MY GOD.)

SHEEEEEEZ.

It was more kind of like add the noise of opening a bottle of soft drink to the "EEEE EEEE EEE BA DOING GA DOING" and you've got it.

Oh dial-up. I do not miss you.

I have no idea how to describe the sound that came after the ba doing ga doing ga part. I was hoping someone else would do it. It always sounded kind of like a monster roaring into a wind tunnel to me or something "HWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAA AWAAAAAA"

CHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

?

And I just heard it last night because someone I was having dinner with had a WAV of it on his iPhone that he wants to make into a ringtone. XDDDD He played it and we reminisced heartily about how you could tell from the tones whether you'd gotten a higher-speed connection or not. The other two (younger) members of the party just stared at us.

...I want to take offense to that, but no, no that is pretty typical for us.

PS you totally upgraded your account just for this, didn't you. Didn't you. GOSH.

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It is!

I totes did. /o\

Oh god, it's been so long since dial-up that I don't even have a clear memory of the sound. ;_; WHY AM I SO OLD.

The noise is burned into my brain.

I can remember like, parts of it, but not the whole thing.

I looked it up on youtube and there's some bits at the beginning that I'd kind of forgotten about. It also kind of varied a little, it seems.

Dude.

That's all I'm saying.

:D?

300 baud, yo.

We had dial-up in my house until I was 16. SIXTEEN. Today's 16-year-olds were born after Kurt Cobain died.

I am too young to feel this old.

Dude, we had dial up until AFTER I WENT TO COLLEGE.

Dude, your parents refused to use a cell phone until a few months ago and are still iffy on it. Let's not use their tech habits as examples. :P

P.S. My house phone was one number off from the local dial-up number. I'm pretty sure I sustained permanent trauma from picking up the phone and having a fucking modem in my ear several times a day.

I never had internet access at my parents'; didn't get online until I started college. Used the higher-speed connection in the computer labs until I moved into my own place, then had dialup for the first time (through the college).

HOW DID WE LIVE?

My parents STILL have dialup. I try so hard to understand why they refuse to upgrade. Sadly, I think the concept of internet working at all is still a little fantastical to them and high-speed would blow their minds.

I think the only reason my parents stopped having dial-up is because they got a deal on cable tv if they got internet through the same company. Thank you bundles!

as someone who had dialoup until like six months ago i can state with certainty that the noise is

CLICK
boom da boom
DOOOOOO do do do do do do do
krshhhhhhh
krshhhhhhh
DUUUUUUN DOOM DA DA LOOM BOOM BOOOOOM

Just beautiful.

A+

lolololol amazing. And yes, that's it exactly.

(I am a bad person because this post made me want fic, right? I think I definitely am /o\)

Only if it doesn't include sexbots. IT COULD BE STEAMPUNK SEXBOTS WHOSE MODEMS NEED A LITTLE KICKING INTO GEAR FIRST BUT THEN THEY CAN GO ALL. NIGHT. LOOOOOOOOONG.

... idek anymore.

This is like that time I threatened Donna with creepy Robot sex and then we started chatficcing it in earnest, isn't it /o\

Also, you're insane. In the best possible way, I think, but still.

Yes. It's also possible I just really want sexbot fic. :(

UHHH HELLO I THINK YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON. WRITE IT RIGHT NOW.

I suspect I could write it--as in, the words could come out and be typed up--but I have no idea how one would make fucking machine fic actually sexy. Which is not to say that your kink is not okay! Just that i'm juvenile. The entire time I would be like LOL IT IS A MACHINE WITH A DICK!

...MACHINE!

.......WITH A DICK!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO WRITE. I DID IT, AND IF I DID IT, ANYONE CAN. I HAVE FAITH.

1) CAN'T STOP LOLING 2) You earwormed me with boom de yada. ;______; Though, had my dial-up sounded like boom de yada, I would've hated it less.

I read that as dial-tone. :(

It's okay, bb. Your dialtone was beautifully rendered. ♥

I cannot top anything in this post, though OH THE YESTER YEAR OF ENCOURAGING AOL'S LITTLE YELLOW RUNNING MAN TO RUN, AOL MAN, RUN!

LOL USED AOL.

KILL YOURSELF. IT WAS PRETTY. >:(

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