its like the void was screaming back at us, warning us of the horrors to come but we did not have the ears to hear or the capacity to understand of what it spoke
Except when you heard the click…. And then a frozen screen… and then the phone ringing…. And you’re kicked off.
And will be kicked off for the foreseeable future because your mom’s friend called her and… now you just sit upside down on the couch starring at her to get off the phone. 😂
The best, most cursed thing is that it was screaming the entire time. Because modems were translating numbers, bits and bytes, over lines that only ever carried voice, the entire transmission was always that sound. The screeching was to let us know it started, but it didn't stop until we hung up.
I mean, they call sex the “little death,” but that modem scream was another kind of little death. Like sacrificing a phantom creature just to get out of the closet.
I was always very excited about the video I was trying to download, even though I had to give up half the time because my parents wanted to make a phone call.
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And will be kicked off for the foreseeable future because your mom’s friend called her and… now you just sit upside down on the couch starring at her to get off the phone. 😂
Same rate, way bigger absolute numbers.
Those were the days.
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SKREE-SKREE-SKREE-SKREE
"Aww mom have you picked the phone up??"
When the humans were offline...modems would scream
https://youtu.be/PeihcfYft9w?si=fEBT-b39az9M29WV
I actually remember the old modems with a phone handset
Damn
I do not miss those times, when the best one can do was downloading a few images or pay a literate fortune for decent speeds.
Not to mention that I spent half of that time reinstalling broken machines, either from OS, hard drive failures or virus infections.