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[humandoodad]

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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Comments

[impertinence.livejournal.com]

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

[preachelectric]

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.

[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

...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.

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

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.

[shadowhwk.livejournal.com]

Dude.

That's all I'm saying.

[theashgirl.livejournal.com]

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.

[roadmarks.livejournal.com]

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

[jubella.livejournal.com]

I read that as dial-tone. :(

[cool-rain-kiss.livejournal.com]

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!