I just got back upstairs from my neighbors house. He was having trouble connecting up to the Internet with his modem. Whenever he does he gets a crackling noise that comes over the speaker. Plus it ...

If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax machine and the non-customizable ringtone. To me, it’s more than that. The ...

Before ADSL was introduced around 2000, internet connections were overwhelmingly ``dial-up connections,'' where you dialed your home modem to an access point provided by your provider and connected ...