ALL Old Modem Sounds (300 baud to 56K)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Here's a compilation I made of every major modem standard used in North America (Bell 103, V.22(bis), V.32(bis), V.34, V.90, and V.92), corresponding to 300 bps, 2400 bps, 14.4K, 33.6K, and 56K. Those of you who actually used the older (pre-V.34) standards might notice some slight differences in the sounds (with respect to timing) - this is because these were all made with a ~2005 embedded Conexant V.92 laptop softmodem. Using the AT+MS command, the modem can be forced to use older modulations, but since it's a softmodem, all the calculations are done by the CPU which causes some lag. Traditional external modems used their own DSPs which didn't experience this latency.
I worked for an ISP in the 1990s, I could tell you the speed and modulation type just by listening. More often than not I'd just ask the customer to turn their modem's volume up and be quiet and I could tell them what the issue was just by listening to the modem.
That's absolutely incredible
A unique skill set, i have no idea how you'd be able to use that in the current day but that's super impressive.
@@Angry_Lad Yeah, not too useful now!
Audio production.
I wish computers sang these sorts of songs that vocalize upload and download upon connecting to a provider.
I worked at AOL. Heard this a LOT. Some of the old timers memorized each sound speed and not just the ones here but the in between speeds as well. Could tell how fast a customer was connecting within a few kbps.
i guess you've got mail
So do you remember PRE AOL? It was quantum link!! Loved that as a kid!!
Pretty easy to tell the difference, I used to do that and weirded out my therapist as a kid when I congratulated them on their new 56k office fax machine (old one was 33.6k) that was not only through 2 closed doors but also down the hall and around the corner... what can I say, cheap construction and thin walls meant the sound echoed, and the difference in tone was a dead give away XD
I was able to mimic this for sure... and I can still do a Fax machine :-) LOL
@@BrianPex I remember it, but couldn't afford it. First came aware early 80s.
At 300 baud, over a purely ASCII transmission (just a long string of characters), you could read much faster than the character data was coming in. That's how slow things were.
At 300 baud you see content come in one character at a time, at 1200 one word at a time, 2400 a few words, 9600 paragraphs, and faster you start to get it in pages.
I remember i used 56k so I can look at some pictures, it took ages....
2400bps pure ASCII (no ANSI color codes) would scroll faster than you could read it. 300bps is very slow but in its heyday, it was commonly used by teletype machines which couldn't really print faster than that except really high end models. Terminals didn't have such a problem so modems started getting faster.
Fast forward to today where I just hooked up a 100gigabit Ethernet connection. That's 41.67 million times faster than my first modem (2400bps)
@@mojeimja chat room pics? heheheheee
@alysdexia What are you going on about? Are you drunk?
In the late 90s I remember on normal days my dialup would sound like v.90 (1:16), but whenever it rained my modem would sound like v.32 (0:36) for a few hours after the rain stopped. I knew I was in for a bad time whenever I heard the v.32 handshake.
Loved listening to the handshake sound. It wasn't just for the internet but to play StarCraft against a friend in the next town over.
Parents wouldn't allow sleep overs so no LAN parties just a heavy telephone bill.
I ran a BBS in the early 90's at 2400 baud so this was pretty neat to listen to. 10 years later I hardly ever had 56k connections phone lines sucked except 2 apartments I lived in. Finally got cable in 2004 :)
I had a Kaypro-4, and would regularly have to whistle into the handset for the modem to connect to the local BBSs. Wow, this brought back memories.
I remember being in 2nd grade, my brother was in 5th, and he was connecting to various BBS, the modem sounds were magical to me. He was able to find pictures of Cindy Crawford in a bikini which we printed out in black-and-white and sold at school for a dime. Our parents didn't teach us how to connect to a BBS, I don't know how he learned to do it.
Thank you! I was looking for the V.34 dial up sound and the sound I found was mainly the V.90
Sincerely!
Different modem brands often had slightly different handshakes, especially with V.90. US Robotics modems make a double bong sound at 1:34.
Or I think sometimes they a single bong with a higher pitch tone
So I'm not crazy! I knew I remembered the BONG. BONG.
I feel like this is a weirdly important piece of history to be preserved. Maybe that's just because of the nostalgia attached to it though.
Oh this made my day. THANK YOU.
I remember being able to see incoming calls on our computer and pausing the dial up connection. Answering the phone call and resuming the dial up connection. It didnt always work though. Sometimes it would disconnect and I'd have to reconnect. But, I thought it was awesome when we got that feature.
My god that was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
This is a blessed video
All of these are soothing and nostalgic. 😊
"GET OFF THE F@CKING PHONE, I'M TRYING TO USE THE INTERNET!" That was a normal conversation in my childhood home...
I had them all. From stick your phone in it, to 56K. I seem to recall one that said it was higher too, but it was so long ago; 30 years plus now... Dang.
0:00 the bbs is www.popsite.net and your login are typed is CACTUS . right?
Technically it was an AOL phone number, and that's the login prompt it gives. That's wild you decoded it
i played the audio from video in real acostic coupler. the end
You inspired me to do it the hard way! I was figuring if you did it that way, then the carrier MUST be intact, so I wanted to see if I could "demodulate" it with audacity and notepad, and it worked! I don't have an acoustic coupler BTW.
Answering modem:
CCCCCC@UQKT2 Welcome to phl6-dial1.popsite.net
login:CACTUS
Password:
% Authentication failed
login:
Originating modem:
CACTUS
BAC
That layout may be incorrect because I'm not sure how to render vertical tabs. Took me about 5 hours, with about one hour just figuring out how everything was encoded, and trying to figure out how to get Audacity to give me a proper spectrogram to go off of.
Total 1008 bits (combined egress and ingress) so my baud rate is 21.4 seconds per bit :D Could probably do it faster if I had to do it again tho. I might make a video showing how it all works one of these days.
Screenshot of working with Audacity: imgur.com/mkTQHfx
That's very impressive.
@@Rakeeshj Did you ever make that video?
300 baud:
"Ok, remaining time to load 1000 letters.. 10 years."
10 years later:
"Hold on just a few days left.."
Heh, trip down memory lane.
Never knew about v.92... I dropped the whole analog modem scene before hand.
Came more out of nowhere than any YTP you have uploaded.
NOOBNUT08 Not even GNfOS?
GNfOS is more you're style. This video is LGR territory
Very astute observation. I'll give this one to you.
Oh those memories.
This is a great video and it shure brings back a lot of bbs memories. ATDT! ;-)
1:16 the most famous modem sound
how I love me some good ol earrape xD
my brain at 9 when I just sit there doing nothing
These sounds are the one thing I miss about the old dial-up days.
But I sure as hell don't miss waiting 2 hours for a 3mb MP3 to download, lol.
The music of my childhood..
I remember the 2400 bps sound. I had a Commodore 64 back in the late 80s. I started from 1200 bps, and upgraded to a 2400 bps modem. Since the signals were inverted on the Commodore 64, I had to use an adapter that plugged into the User port that went to the RS-232 connector on the modem itself.
"Welcome! You have mail!"
man, once you got that sweet 56k you were off to the races
Ha! This is the true Retro music
My condolences to anyone listening to this with headphones. I am sorry för your loss of hearing .
Sadly there are still many people in America that cannot connect to the internet any faster than these modems from 20+ years ago.
So relaxing
Oh yea, v.34 is our meme
Oh and v90
I started with an Acoustic Coppler for my Commodore C64 and have been online eversince :)
"bro i swear im not lagging its just hacks" bro's wifi:
I just listened to a bunch of old modems talking to themselfs
Idk, im kinda wishing our home router would make such sounds when it experiences net lags.
finally a video i can watch on my 56 kilobit internet (lol)
I can remember knowing if was going to connect or not by the sounds . especially the 33.6 sound.
3 is what you are looking for
sounds like home
Oooh yeah. Can't wait to get a CD drive to check out this myst game that's all the rave! Oooooh geocities, tripod, angelfire! I'm coming!
It's oddly amusing how they used the v.32 modem handshake (0:36) as the sound for the radios in Initial D first stage!
Fun fact, a very similar acoustic system used for dial up works on digital ham radio. It's all just sound after all. Some of the new audio digital modes can work globally in the right conditions.
This is why AI will never stay contained...
And I had a video up about 14 years ago that showed me using an audio cassette tape recorder to store 11 kbps HE-AAC compressed digital audio in real time on the tape using Digital Radio Mondiale...
I think I've heard all of those but the last one. I think we'd switched to ADSL before then. Or possibly ISDN.
14.4k is the best modem sound
Younger folks will never understand.
Does any one experience mom screaming after she listen that sound in receiver.
I was gonna say, now all we need is a recording of someone screaming "MOM! HANG UP! I'M ONLINE!"
Well then.
Bell 103 is absolutely visceral.
had dialup continued what would have been next after v.92?
It took 10 years to get from 14kbps to 28kbps...
0:56 probably the one you've heard the most
My initials, RLF, are in this machine language at 300 baud, from a Whittier, California landline in 1980s...I imagine some computer file archives. What a thought!? I am locked up in a ancient reptile of a computer.
Raymond Frankwick that's awesome lolz
1:21 don’t mind me i’m just saving this time stamp
Slayer guitar solos
great tool
Linus, is that you?
1:16 This are my sound before playing Ragnarok Online in 2004
Nostalgic!
If I never heard the sound from 1:18-1:21 on my main dial-up connection (I did hear it on another one with the same modem) and it definitely wasn't #5, does that mean for sure that it wasn't a 56K connection? It sounded like #3 except the part at 1:01 was faster, and it had the "stuttering crescendo" from #4.
That's an optional pre-negotiation phase called V.8bis. Some modems do it, others don't. I think it's mandatory in V.92 for the quick connect, but that's it. It doesn't affect V.90 mode at all, and if you heard the DIL then you were (at least attempting) a 56k connection.
I think it's missing 28.8kbps VFC. It's very different from the V34 one. Had a USRobotics back then.
That moment when u clicked on internet and had so muchfear to pay 100000dollars internet bill
Ah, so many memories...I wonder if you could sell this to K-tel for a compilation CD?
Crush: Hi
Me: 01:18
I wish we could hear current Internet dialing sounds.
Play one of these back into your phone if you get bot callers, they will probably mark it as a fax number
Or they will say sexy because of the noises LOL XD
that's my plan!
clever.
I tried this before a few years ago, it actually does work. Got a robo call from some company selling health insurance, played the dial up sound into the phone and the robo call automatically disconnected. I never got a call from that number again.
@@RavenholmZombie im going to try this.... if it works thank you!!!!
Those where moments of intense anxiety back then, wishing your PC connected succesfully.
Then the phone rings...
@@Clancydaenlightened when your mum use the telephone inside the room.
Arghhh!
Mom walks into the kitchen and picks up the phone...
☎️ ⚡️ ⚡️ 💀
Connection terminated.
Nooooooo!
It wasn't so much anxiety, it was "FUCK 38000 bps again!" on a 56K line (truthfully I never got higher than 44-46000 speeds anyhow)
hoping mom wasnt calling cathy at the same time as you were surfin'
i instantly recognized the 28.8k-33.6k sound, because it was always tough for me to always have true 56k access lol. even getting onto the internet back in the day was an achievement. lots of people take the internet for granted nowadays.
I didn't grow up with with this internet type but I can imagine the struggle, but really we take pretty much EVERYTHING for granted nowadays.
56K was a fantasy most of the time lol
For most people, 33.6k was the max that dialup ever achieved.
Haha! same here too.. insane!
Same! Funny enough, I thought I remembered it as the 56K sound, but I guess my family never had it. Just made the jump to DSL after 28.8K-33.6K!
Also had to hope you weren’t on a shared line because someone 3 houses down could pick up the phone and it would take out all service on the block lmao
Me in 1998: wow, the PC sounds like a phone!
Me in 2008: wow, my phone can connect to the internet!
Me in 2021: the internet was a mistake!
I feel the same way.... I say as I type a comment on the internet.
web 2.0 and it's consequences
@@_wija At first I was gonna say that Tim Berners-Lee would be rolling in his grave if he weren't still alive, but then I saw that he apparently sold an NFT of the web's original source code so now he's dead to me.
@@_wija web3.0*
@@populistscum i meant what i meant
I've never heard this skrillex album yet
elgavilan2000 lmao
Thanks you made my day ;)
What are you talking about? This album has Lou Reed written all over it.
Merzbow
Face my fears is my favorite Skrillex song
Idk why but I love this video to death. It reminds me of when I was like 4 and 5 watching my grand mother check her email and thinking how cool it is that the computer could talk and shit. Oh those were the days
忍野 忍 Your grandma knew how to check her email, let alone had one?
Well, some old people seem to adapt to new technologies pretty well.
Oskiinus I know but most old people I know, don’t even know or want to try to know the basis of a computer and how it works.
Haha, me too xD
A N I M E
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These aren't sounds, these are my speakers screaming in agony.
its my soul screaming from the cringe i look at on ifunny....
its the poor sound card that has to pump out this monstrosity
CalvinWinz People still use sound cards? I think sound is already integrated pretty flawlessly.
That was actually sounds back then
I'm Pavlov-conditioned to feel happy when I hear that sound. It meant that I'd finally connected to the BBS I was dialing into, after an eternity of busy signals.
Category: Pets and Animals
????????
I mean, this _is_ how pets communicate, so...
Rise of the machines...
@@RavenholmZombie Commodore, that is.
Wait... what if your parakeet can understand and speak modem language and the reason why modems sound the way they do is because parrots created them to control computers by voice?
My modem is my pet! Don’t judge me!
1:34
your pet modem doesn't make that sound when it's barking?
What Computers Hear: Hey, I need that file. Can you give it to me?
What We Hear: *BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-*
Yep, pretty much.
Chsssszksskskskskskskshhjjjjjjjj*BEEP* chssssssshshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *BEEP* burmpsgehshshsgssssgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsgsggssggsggggggggeeeeeh
FELLOW HUMANS CANT READ THE ONE AND ONLY PC BINARY LANGUAGE
Sattlight I can write the current year in binary
0010 0000 0001 1001
(Yes, I’m serious in binary that’s 2019.)
it's funny that we created them and can't even understand them
300 baud sounds WAY different from the one the Internet likes to make fun of, v. 90
Sounds quite like SSTV transmission to me.
THEREDCAP that is because there is no real handshaking or line tests because of the low baud rate, what you hear is actual serial data being modulated along with the carrier (the two tones)
@@BicyclesMayUseFullLane If you have heard SSTV, you'd know the sounds and modulation are totally different. They sound nothing alike.
So, They Dont Bother With V.92?
It's funny to that everyone on the internet seems to be born yesterday and doesn't remember anything before v90 like it's so Antiquated which it is but there was dial-up far before there was v90
I find this playing in my head alot
ShaddyCrunchum always during a test right?
Tinnitus?
You sure you're not a robot?
Wouldn't it be really cool if you could connect to a cell tower purely with your brain power and browse the internet in your head. That would be awesome
@@bitterlemonboythen you're forced to watch an ad, have ridiculously bad internet speed, and your intrusive thoughts probably would kick in and send you into a scam site.
My morning music.
really appreciate those people who innovate. can't imagine how difficult creating this kind of tech at that time
It's extraordinary to me how much they were a le to do with such a backwards medium as telephone. Literally transmitting data through sound.
I just love how advanced v.92 sounds, literally godlike.
Once you know, you ATM2...
@@brentfisher902 was M2 the one that muted the dialing and only played the connect tones, or was that M3? +++ ATH0
@@TechnoTinker ATM2 is to have the speaker on heck or high water until the day you choose to hang up.
@@brentfisher902 I keep mine at ATM0, because I don't want to be woken up... L0 doesn't work that well
I've been in IT since the 1983. I actually did listen to 75-100 Baud modems by HAM Radio (Radio Teletype/RTTY). This is like walking up memory lane. :-)
Want primitive? Try the QRP Morse code signaling that sends upper case text...the dot of the letter 'E' takes a whole 60 seconds to send....
such beautiful music to my ears. i actually miss this. not that i don't mind having 24/7 access whenever and wherever and not having it take up the phone line... but... i miss hearing the handshaking sounds.
@@jan_Kapije yh but thats not really ‘authentic’
It reminds me of much of my childhood and all the way up to my mid teens. I don't know what I'm missing, but the line attenuation tests in all of the 56k recordings I've found really seem to be different. Every handshake I can remember had a very clear series of rapid, and almost metallic sounding, beeps instead of the single ramp up I'm hearing. I would love to hear from someone who knows what I'm remembering and could maybe provide a link to more information
@@landonbrown5295 Yeah, on 56k I remember it doing a "BONG, BONG" sound instead of that buzzing sound toward the end. I can't find any examples of that on the internet though, and it's probably hard to find a BBS or dialup internet to connect to these days, lol
I used this as my voicemail and bots would either class me on hiya as a fax or unused motem service it was fun
Informative, thank you.
C A T E G O R Y : P E T S A N D A N I M A L S
my favorite pet is my V.34 modem.
It’s because UA-cam auto categorization It’s not very good
MAM,SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO THE COMPUTER MAAAAAAAM
BTW, missing Bell 101 modem that preceded the 103A. The 101 only had 110 baud, and sounds like sci-fi.
can
you link the audio because i cannot find it for the life of me
I found a nice recording of B101 (might be NSFW): ua-cam.com/video/w4505B8jDoY/v-deo.html
@@lAMNOTGOOMBA distustang
Man I was trying to figure out why the sound everyone kept posting as the "modem connecting sound" didn't sound right, and it wasn't until I watched this video that I realized that it's because they're using the 56k one and I grew up with V.32 and V.34 at 14.4k and 28.8k. By the time 56k came out I was using college broadband.
The first 3 I heard all through the good old days. The latter ones were usually set to be muted in the modem's configuration. I used to be an expert on modem configuration. I once ran a BBS. Was it all a dream?
How quickly things change. It is sad though and so much of that early Internet technology became obsolete without real replacements available. It's just not the same.
300 Baud was what I had until 1990 haha. Love the simplicity of the sound. It was a simpler time.. Hearing the complexity increase with every speed upgrade is superb.
never realised there was a difference between v.90 and v.92 in terms of the handshake sound, wow
Dude we have the same avatar (almost)
They're very similar standards, and hit the market within a year of each other. Early in its development, V.90 was expected to be the final modem standard, but some of the more complex problems were delayed to get it out the door sooner. Most V.90 modems gained support for V.92 with a firmware upgrade.
I guess we started getting ADSL around 99 (in NZ anyway) so not much motivation to upgrade if you already had a 56.6k modern
this is identical to the korean language 🇰🇷🇰🇷
Ok, I'm listening to a compilation of modem tones. Time for bed.
it is currently 3 am
Where can I get the raw sound files from these ?
Idk
Dial up a random modem via Windows (it's still available) then record the thing
@@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr Get two USB modems and a terminal program and solder the circuit that provides the 'line-current' which also has an aux cord on it...type ATA on the first terminal...than ATD on the second terminal just as you hit record on the PCM recorder....
I swear using Internet back then must have felt like you're hackerman connecting with the alien mothership. Kinda wish I was 10 years older to experience it...
You mean 10 years older
@@pickler_pickler Dang, you're right :P
I like the sounds of the 9.6 - 14.4 modem.