Ancient Web: Dial Up Sound Keeps the Modem Handshake Alive
DialUpSound.com does one thing: plays a real recording of a computer connecting to dial-up Internet, preserving the handshake noise that once announced the beginning of an online session.
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Ancient Web: Roger Russell Documented McIntosh From the Inside
Roger Russell's personal site preserves a sprawling history of McIntosh Laboratory products, people, loudspeakers, clinics, patents, prices, and engineering details from someone who helped design part of that history.
Ancient Web: Phone Trips Streamed Payphone Sounds Before Podcasts Existed
Phone Trips preserved tape recordings of payphone and telephone-network sounds, then used TrueSpeech streaming so modem users could hear them online without downloading enormous audio files.