ALL Old Modem Sounds (300 baud to 56K)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2016
- 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.
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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.
@@angrylad5575 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.
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'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
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.
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?
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
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
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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
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*
@@iamnevrchange.9570 i meant what i meant
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
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.
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
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
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
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?
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....
Informative, thank you.
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.
1:01 brought me to tears, he's really speaking fax right now
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 TH-cam auto categorization It’s not very good
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.
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.
Searched TH-cam explicitly for this and was not disappointed. I'm surprised some version of this content (that's as well presented as this) doesn't predate your upload, IAMNOTGOOMBA, but good on you for making it. Thank you.
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.
So good that people srill care :). These noises represent so much negotiation and thought.
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.
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
Thank you! I was looking for the V.34 dial up sound and the sound I found was mainly the V.90
Sincerely!
MAM,SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO THE COMPUTER MAAAAAAAM
Oh this made my day. THANK YOU.
Beautiful sweet symphony, thank you very much for the nostalgia
I used this as my voicemail and bots would either class me on hiya as a fax or unused motem service it was fun
This brings back memories, awesome video! 👍
This was great.
Thanks for uploading.
I just wish the clips were longer.
Thanks for the audio, i needed it
That was awesome! Thanks for the memories. :)
Great video, I’m 11 and I love studying about dial up modems and phones. This video taught me what 300 baud was.
Have fun ^^
It's interesting how quickly things advanced in such a short time span.
i looked this up to show how my tinnitus sounds like and the first one was perfect thank you
after watching the whole video it stopped trying to connect and changed to a flat noise, there might be more use for modem noises than i thought
9.6K - 14.4K sound is the best one imo, there's just something about it that just sounds pleasant to the ears, especially compared to 28K and 56K which both sound like a dying cat
All of these are soothing and nostalgic. 😊
My first modem was the USRobotics 9600 baud (9,600 bit/s V.32) *internal* modem. This was considered (back in 1995) good technology. Fast technology. Oh how far we have come. Thank you very much for this cool video.
thank you thank you thank you. sometimes it feels like my brain is malfunctioning and the dial-up sounds feel like turning it off and then back on again
I like the sounds of the 9.6 - 14.4 modem.
This is a blessed video
Brings back memories. My first modem was 300 baud and connected directly to the handset jack on the phone. It plugged into the ROM port of my Tandy CoCo 3 console computer. No internet - just dial-up (literally, I had a rotary dial phone) connections to EBBs (Electronic Bulletin Boards).
Brings back so many memories
My god that was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
I actually enjoyed it, thanks
Ok, I'm listening to a compilation of modem tones. Time for bed.
it is currently 3 am
Thanks, I was tyring to remembe a date from March 3, 1994. This helped a lot.
This is a great video and it shure brings back a lot of bbs memories. ATDT! ;-)
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 :)
Had 2400 v.22bis few years and upgraded to 14.4k v.32 external hayes modem as a teen. Damn them sound are the best. Went right into cable internet from 14.4k after 7years off from computers.
These sounds used to be followed by a rush of godlike power.
This tickles my brain pleasingly
Man. I haven't heard these sounds in nearly forty years. brought back some nice memories. Loved those sounds.
40 years? So you're saying modems that made these particular sounds, existed in '82/'83? And not only that, _that_ is the time you remember them from?
Sus.
@@patrik5123 i had one in the very early 1990s. Which is nearly 40 years ago. Like I posted.
@@johnellison3030 Closer to 30 years ago.
@@patrik5123 I'm Gen X. I done the things you found on the internet
@@johnellison3030 I'm a millennial elder myself.
My ISP was supposed to have modem on hold but I never really figured out how to get it to work. Our telephone company upgraded your connection at the box etc to accommodate 56K. Sometime 'at the turn of the century' I adopted DSL, tried early VOIP and even attempted to live stream Woodstock '99 (that sorta failed miserably). My machine was a PIII with a dinky hard drive by today's standards but I still got some amazing things done with it!
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'll never forget the first time I heard this sound, and how my mind was blown by the concept of the internet. How the world has changed...
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): th-cam.com/video/w4505B8jDoY/w-d-xo.html
@@lAMNOTGOOMBA distustang
Thanks for this. Seriously.
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.
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.
Cool video! I liked how you brought up the x2 vs k56flex, but noticed you didn't have a 16.8k connect to listen to. I remember being excited to connect to BBS's and get that extra 2400 bps!
Neat. I remember all of these except for the quick connecting v.92 at the end (never really used the quick connect).
danceswithdirt - Funnily enough, my old Gateway's built-in Conexant AC97 modem used quick connect, but not my brand-new USRobotics USB modem.
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.
Ah, the days of being able to tell if your PC was gonna get on the internet and whether or not it was going to get on at 56 or 48 K by sound alone. Skills I'll never use again...
I'm having flashbacks. I started with 300 baud running multi-line bbs on the Commodore 64. Awesome.
That's pretty neat dude!
Me too. Fond memories
This is fire
man this sure does take me back....
I’m old enough to remember most of these, we got our first computer when I was three (1987) and we had modems that did most of these speeds. 56k blew my mind back in the day when I was still like 10 using BBS to share files. Really fun times
Dude this is wild
Forget bout’ the haters, This is by far... MY MOST FAVORITE VIDEO ON TH-cam!
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.
So relaxing
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.
Nostalgia overload!
FSR I remember the 2400 beeping two fewer times than it did here.
I had modem on hold ("Internet Call Waiting") with Bell Canada in 1998. I actually had broadband (it was something like 300 or 600 kbps) then too, but I was staying somewhere where I had to use dialup. It included call display, which the person I was staying with didn't have. I'd often tell her who was calling when the phone rang.
Amazing how we can recognize the sounds.
And before this, the tapes on a ZX Spectrum. Could identify the game by listening to the sound.
Ah the old days... I remember getting so excited with my first 56k connection with that added sound at the end...
Oh man this blessed my ear drums
This is so nostalgic
Wow, this new Ryoji Ikeda album looks sick
What was great about ISDN wasn't even the better speed, but the greater stability and dedicated separate line
#3 is the one we had on our first computer. I never remembered hearing that buzzy “success” tone when I was a kid.
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?
Glad to hear these, old memories came back.
I remember there were also three other handshake sounds missing in this video, the first one was V.FC (V.Fast Class 28.8K protocol from Rockwell), another one was K56flex (56K protocol from Rockwell) and the last one was x2 (56K protocol from US Robotics). These three were "transition products" which doesn't last long before replaced by V.34 and V.90 respectively.
Just curious anyone got the handshake sounds of these three "rare" protocols? Thanks.
I've personally never heard any of them myself, and although some people online say that Conexant modems, like the one I used here, support K56 since they bought out Rockwell, mine didn't. But, I found a few recordings on this website: modemsite.com/56k/trouble3.asp (They're all in classic '90s RealPlayer .RAM format, since, you know, that's the timeframe we're working with here.)
@@lAMNOTGOOMBA You made me install real player for this ... But, I suppose it was worth it, maybe.... I figured out which V.90 my old 56K modem was (Lucent, which has a distinctive sound during the training phase)
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
This would scare the crap out of a ton of people if you left your phone in a cafe on maximum volume while playing this
Ahhh, the memories of blue boxing in the 90's. The US party lines, the warez boards. If John from Bootle (Lister) is reading this, this is Rimmer, BOYZ from the Dwarf!!
Back then, you waited as you connect hoping it was connected successfully. If not, it would repeat those sounds resulting in a slower connection. You either had to reconnect or wait until a later time. And, you pick up the phone, your internet connection was lost and you had to painfully wait to reconnect. Oh yeah, the good ol days when web pages loaded up slowly or you had to wait several minutes for a 1 megabyte file or picture to download.
Whoa #5 was wild. Never heard that one
Music to my ears!
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.
Wow... and I remember all of these
Music for my ears