crossbar telephone swiches clicking and clacking in the distance

Some people in rural areas still use it.

Activating Nuclear Missiles....

The Feds will come knocking soon. lol

😂😂

0:35 modem sound talk to computer

I know, right!

So you dont understand any of the dialogs of r2d2? dude you are missing out

Yes this was more interesting than I didn't realise I needed to know!

Cars can tell you whats wrong too, if you know the sounds.

Remember that Simpson episode where Comicbook Guy downloads a naked Captain Janeway using dial up? and remember in Futurama the Professor tells everybody Get Off the internet now I need to use the phone and u have a delivery to make if its the year3000 u think they wouldnt have that problem

That's a fact, I loved that part too

glazing

@@floridakid7975joking*

As long as land lines still are on poles and house drops, it’ll never go away. People all around the world still use it..

Speaking of a certain year of September. The landline payphone infrastructure around New York City was still working even though the building crash down on top of the underground telephone facility. Unfortunately the seller infrastructure that was on top of said building was no longer functioning. Part of this is due to the well-thought-out technology of POTS and part of this was the cold war mentality. But like most things that are old and abandoned they usually still working if they're not messed with, they just need somebody knowledgeable to use it.

facsimile machines still use V.17/V.34

@@jaredchampagne2752 problem is a lot of carriers are dropping landlines and going to fiber which was a major issue contacting my grandmother when her power was out for a week.

In sweden they have removed almost all phone lines meaning you cant get dial-up or adsl/vdsl anymore :(

basically nowadays' dreampi

I tried doing that with a Windows 98 VM using ancient PC-DC tutorials, it didn't go well for me

There's no reason to put the word dial up in quotes. You look stupid

@@avegee24tv but now that flycast can emulate online features kinda not nedded anymore.

@@MilesPrower1992 use terminal in windows, handwritten handshakes etc

So you worked with Al Gore? Impressive!

Are you still using DSL? Why? Isn't any other connection available in your area?

DSL is all that's available in my area.@@RockinEnabled

How old are you?

73 @@riyadali4082

when you thought your internet was slow dial up is way slower then your slow ass broad band by far

That’s interesting I know some parts or areas still use dial up because they can’t afford or they can’t get cable internet in their area. Some switch to 5G or stay with dial up because that’s all they have

@@H8RSAPPRECIATE That is so strange, I can't imagine that. I've been growing up with Dial-Up and AOL Mail service until 2008 was around, but the fact some areas still using it while 5G comes along sounds kinda insane tbh

Yep, I found Webkinz usually didn't work but Club Penguin did (for the most part). We only got high speed because we were getting overage charges for using the internet too much. Mum surprised me by having it hooked up when I was in school. So when I came home and asked "Mum may I use the internet?" she responded that I could. I initially, was scared when I double clicked on the browser and wasn't asked to dial-in that it had been connected for ages without anyone knowing. Then I noticed the high speed router and yelled: "Thanks, Mum!"

Just moved out of my parent’s house in rural Missouri where we had 10mbps through DSL because there was no other option……… and now I’ve got 1gbps in St. Louis County. Literally 0.01% of what I have now

@@H8RSAPPRECIATE I have fast internet, but on hot summer days, I guess some router somewhere gets overheated and I have no internet :) So I bought a 5G phone with unlimited data to solve that. On good days I have over 1100Mb, and on bad days around 20, but at least its internet :) Works when the kids wants to play Fortnite in terms of latency, usually they get around 50ms instead of 30ms when normal internet is working.

Didn't the very best of the best quality connections have like one or two loud PINGs at the end of the routine?

it put a smile on my face and reminded using dialup as a kid...

In 1994 I had a hard time telling the difference between the world wide web and america online. By1995 I had the hang of it . By 1996 I was a pro . By 98 I had a state of the art hardcore pornography collection. In 1998 I was 13 years old. I am now a 39 year old adult pervert that has seen it all. (except CP) I am lucky my kinks are normal and my cock still functions normally for sex. I see the younger generations are taking viagra in their early 20s from porn induced erectile dysfunction. I watched the internet ruin men and women in different ways. Many men have dysfunctional penises from porn. Many women have ruined brains from social media (delusional expectations and self image) Heres the positive. I have exceptional memory (I remember what words looked like before I could read , I remember the moment reading *clicked* for me in 1990) Close friends and intellectuals consider me a genius because of the ludicrous amount of knowledge i have on a diverse array of topics. It makes me an excellent conversationalist and it makes me tons of money (i run a startup at night and have a excellent remote job during the day) Theres no way I could have absorbed all of this information without the internet.

the masses of free AOL cds in the walkin areas of walmarts, where kids would steal them and throw them as frisbies

AOL went down as the broadband came up. With broadband internet the AOL software was obsolete. AOL was my first contact to the internet. AOL was so slow.

In the future, archeologists will find garbage dumps with mountains of silver discs with the same inscription and wonder what these silver discs were for. To whom did they make offerings to their gods? Were these grave goods?@@IvanOoze1990

We used to have a good laugh over people on AOL. Generally (not all)...they were quite stupid and not tech savvy - you could spot them online right away.

She didn't need to talk to them anyway all they do is gossip!

Thank God you guys never played Monopoly in your house.

Sounds like you have a bigger problem here than just dial up internet. Being bitter about this two decades later is crazy

@@el-maiki Well we're not actively bitter but whenever it's brought up she still gets upset about it and tells me how much I disrupted her life etc. Which is not entirely untrue, but I also needed to be online for a portion of the day. I tried to get my work done at night as to not disrupt her calls, but then she got mad at me for not going to bed on time, so I couldn't win haha.

yall couldnt talk it out? set up a schedule, discuss if you need to use the phone or be online? damn 😭

Same... was similar to the "Loading up a game from 3.5" disks on an Amiga". You could tell immediately if it was going to botch the loading process by just listening when it suddenly sounded differently than usual :D

Hahah yea I remember that

Yep. Like when this guy was connecting to NetZero, you could tell it was negotiating a lower baud rate because of that "hesitancy" in the middle fo the connection. Whereas if you connect to BBSes and other places that have reliable 56k or higher lines, sometimes the negotiation was near INSTANT - like 3-4 seconds INSTANT.

@@CakePrincessCelestia And having to have a floppy disk in the Amiga floppy drive because of the constant CLICK every 15 whatever seconds looking for a disk.

omg yes you could tell by the tone lol

Downloading stuff was a must for me when I was online on dial-up. I liked the feeling of taking something "home" from a marketplace of information.

So so true. All of this.

Just like with buying music! I miss saving up for a new tape, then running home to listen to it on my boom box. Now we have access to EVERY song EVER made, for FREE. 😢

Welcome to the world of insomnia!

@@arcademania7544the nostalgia is nice but I’m extremely grateful to be alive in a time when I can listen to any song I want, wherever I want, on demand. It’s so amazing it’s hard to believe it’s real

Gosh.. I was 17 at the time.. i had no expertise but i learnt to differentiate between a healthy sounding "handshake" and an unhealthy one.

@@MayaSalila I was pretty young myself back then -- when I was using dial up I was the same way where I mostly just knew what sounded good and bad -- I did know a few the the patterns like the handshake, roughly what speed it chose and the last few seconds before the speaker muted you could tell if it was wrong... or if you heard it handshake or negotiate too long, that was a sign too. It also helped my father was very knowledgeable and worked in the tech industry so I had access to information and tools like a scope. It wasnt until later in life when I went to school for electrical engineering and ended up becoming a systems engineer in IT did I actually really understand what I was listening to.

@@trssho91 hi man, I used dial-up over 2008, and like you, after a time, I reconnect too if the "didnt sound right", in that time, I did don't know it was a handshake protocol, but I was able to recognize the sound pattern of a "non stable" to a "good conection" sound. Today i'm graduating on networks, and i'm loving to know about these details.

90 volts is shocks🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Super cool! I heard it for so many years! I slowed down the video to half speed so I could watch it all. I know those tones so well, never knew what they were doing. Amazing tech!

I have, just look for "V.90 Dial-up Modem Handshake - Transactional Analysis" here on KZfaq, way better.

In Norway we had to pay an arm and a leg just to the phone company for connected minutes, and the first years also to the dial up online connection. So it was more expensive than my 300Mbit fiber today.

Same, I remember my first days on the Internet playing Flash games on dial up back when I was in elementary school in the early 2000s. Just hearing that sound brings back a wave of nostalgia, what I wouldn't give to go back.

Yeah I miss the Windows programs that used to be popular before everyone had high speed Internet. MS Encarta is probably the most well-known, but there were many others. There's not really a need for that today as Wikipedia + KZfaq has everything Encarta had plus much more, but I'm still nostalgic for it.

56K? Damn son, I started out at 1200 baud.

@@jamegumb7298 1200 baud? Damn son, I started out with smoke signals.

8:00 imagine you get a phone call and hear that when you pick up🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1999? Lower to middle class I assume? Pretty late in the game tbh

wow amazing story i didn't grew up with that by the way im french and im 24 years old but wow :D i can feel your story @jmal

I agree, i literally got overwhelmed seeing windows 98, and some of those old games on his desktop while dialing up. My goodness!!

iMac 2000s Bondi Blue with DVD Player!

so the concept of aging escapes you, its fine dont worry

@@harmonyinchaos6381 *laughs* no it doesn’t escape me~ I’m just a cynical person :p

Yeah it's weird, but makes sense. I was growing up in the tail-end of dial-up as I'm a millenial, but still had more years using broadband, cable and fiber than dial-up. A gen Z in their 20's now or earlier, grew up in a world with Cable/fiber since their childhood!

Doesn't everybodies smart phone makes these noises when they connect online? Mine does

I last had a dial up connection in 2001. That's 22 years ago. Literally a generation. I've been through DOCSIS and ADSL/VDSL and now have gigabit FTTH. From 56kbps to 1Gbps Yes, it's pretty much forgotten to many people.

"...been dusting off that crap 20 years, waiting for a call!"

I could predict the result speed of the connection only by listening to dial-up sound

​@gmarchenko good to hear I wasn't the only one that could do that. I called so many bbs's and later dial up isps from 1993 to 2000 and got pretty accurate at it.

Me too put the video at 0.25 and got know what steps are going on during handshake.

I thought the same. As someone who used dial up every day growing up I noticed that it oddly always sounded the same when connecting correctly. Now older and much more I.T. savvy this was amazing to see and understand. Great Post.

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Astolfo 🤤

@@legendzaryj so real

astolfo

imagine getting a phone call and hearing I failed shit🤣🤣🤣

I experienced that with a Mac and an external modem all the way up to 2004. It was fast enough for everyday surfing.

Wow, I didn't know it got that good! I just missed those 'wonders'. My last dialup connection was a 56k modem which wasn't a very good one. My 33.6k seemed as good most of the time and a bit more reliable. Local ISP's mustn't have been supporting compression either. Then around 2000 I moved onto cable and DSL.

I contracted for our telco from late '06 to '21. I became really interested in the history and evolution of the phone system. Little did I know back in the 90s that I'd be working on those same old crusty lines for 15 years. These companies have been limping this junk along with bandaid fixes since long before I started. I quit and moved over to contract for the cable co, and although their plant is not in the greatest shape either, it's still much simpler splitting a giant coax many times vs dedicated pairs from the CO to a customer. The Telco had been on a big push to get fiber overlays done, but they abruptly stopped a month or two ago. Pretty sure it's cuz their either blew the budget (not like they can't afford to keep going, it's probably to appease shareholders or whatever)...or cuz the regulator is forcing them to open their fiber network to third party providers. Anyways enough rambling.

I had dialup from roughly 1995-2006 because we lived far enough in the country that there weren't even any DSL circuits close. The very first thing I purchased after getting my first job was a 3G cellular hotspot modem, and having 500kbps was like a miracle to me at the time lol. I could actually watch a youtube video without it buffering and without having to preload for an eternity, or a game that would have taken me nearly 10 days to download I could now do in only 1! And nowadays I've been so long spoiled by fiber optic and blazing fast 5G cellular as well as 802.11 wireless that I take it for granted I can download anything from my Steam library in minutes at most or stream @4k what ever kind of content I want to anywhere I want with minimal difficulty or latency.

@@newtonbomb I have been living trough the same stuff, and yesterday I finally got fiber internet at my island location. I really enjoy the latency and great speeds. Dont want to go back to dial up like in 1997 :)

I had some weird shit with my modem where I would have to start a very slow FTP transfer in the background because if the modem stopped transmitting data it would take forever to start sending again. But if I kept a very slow FTP going in the background just constantly uploading a file, it would work flawlessly. Went on for that for a year before I could afford a new modem.

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who still uses dial up internet these days do you?🤣

Viasat/Hughesnet sucks but Starlink is actually really good, I've seen speeds of up to 200mbps on it and you can actually game online with it (I get pings between 50-100ms with it)

VW Bug Starlink or US Robotics, not any cellphone service ? Where is that ???

​@@lucasremall over the Dakota's, Montana and nevada

@@lucasrem South eastern Virginia. I know people who have been on the wait list for StarLink for 2+ years. There are cellular service dead zones, too.

I live in Buffalo but mom lives deep in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and finally got Starlink… video chats with her STILL lag.

I started with a TI 99 4a with a sidecar RS232 card as well with 300 baud, only in Indiana. That was quite the time.

Prodigy was my first aswell.

Happy someone else realized :)

Especially those house beats made with roland 909 drum sounds

Zero cool just crashed 1507 systems.

first thing I noticed lol

@@Lord_LindaThePhilosopherI don’t think he’s hating kids, more like just saying they literally have no idea because they didn’t experience it themselves? The internet is so ubiquitous it would be hard for them to imagine how different it was.

​@@Lord_LindaThePhilosopherhow... How would they know?

Dial up is like if your parents wanted to call you they couldn't due to you being on the Internet.

I played runescape on dial up all the way up till like 2011

Same. DSL was a godsend​@@anthonycoon6955

this

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Underrated comment.

Gheyyyyy

I have one in another pose looking at me while I watch this video lol

Same. I never lived in an area where I could get 56K speeds on dial-up. I'd always max out at 28.8 or 33.6 if I was very lucky. A lot of times it was 26.4 kbps. It was common to get booted offline randomly. Websites ran okay on dial-up until about 2000 or 2001 and after that, it became excrutiatingly slow as websites became more complex and graphically-intensive. I do not miss dial-up Internet.

@@bchristian85 I feel you. My town has always been about a decade behind the times, despite a healthy population of ~12k and just 5-10 miles from a much bigger city. Our phone lines were crap and DSL/Cable wasn't available at all until the mid 2000s. We could get 56k-ish on a dry, clear day, but that was rare.

Agreed. This is kinda traumatic for those of us who only had dial-up for far too long. 2015 to be exact.

Well im a kid and i want to experience the struggle, problemi Is that i dont have a 1995 or 1998 computer with win 95 or 98, so im gonna have to find a way to purchase that, including america online, AND a 90s phone since im in italy

Shit lol. Downloading a DVD Rip file is like 700 MB. takes less than 1 minute now. Like 36 seconds lmao

I meant the full ~8 GB

@@boydpukalo8980 oh lmao. Got it. But nobody really downloads DVD iso files unless its a video game. Movies are downloaded as rips. If you want a PS2 game yeah I get it.

you mean repacks? where they are compressed into smaller data @@AgentLazarus

Are you talking about "@home"?

It still being used as long as fax being used as its also use dialup, note that this standard is used for any data transmision over phone lines

@@ShadowriverUB Fax usually runs at a higher speed, and each different speed has its own standard.

I saw 1200 baud used a lot too because of the short handshake

Also, seems like banks had already transitioned to mobile data, some techs are even using 4G sticks on ATMs.

@@jamieschnaitter6210 That is correct. 1200 baud did not require any training and was a fixed modulation. So connect speed was less then a second. It is still used today by credit card machines for places that have no DSL or other internet access.

Same here, had AOL from 96 to maybe 2002? We had a 28.8k and upgraded to the 56k later on

Wow. I graduated high school in 1994 and didn’t see internet until 1997. Interesting!

Oh wow 👌

Im quite curious, why did your friend get a dial up?

I just can’t imagine what that’s like with how internet is now.

​@mrbackup993 Probably can't get anything else. I live in a "rural" area, with a mall 10 minutes down the road and fiber lines half a mile from my little neighborhood. The ISP (midco) won't run fiber down our road for whatever reason. Dial up was the only internet I could get, up until last year when tmobile finally said 5g home internet was available.

@@mrbackup993 because he finaly got a landline?

That was how one of our internet companies put it. "you are Columbus, this is your ship" , "now, go and explore."

Okay nerd

@@InterpolBulliedMe stfu thats actually good advise

- So what WAS your Future and Destiny?

It's because his landline actually *is* using VoIP. VoIP introduces latency, that's why the handshake sounds so stretched out. There aren't any real landlines left nowadays. It's all VoIP, it gets converted either in your modem, in the telco cabinet on the street or at the central office.

​@@kpanic23Yeah when he said it's not VoIP I kinda chuckled. It's not VoIP on the public internet, but it still uses tech like SIP. I think the cable co that I contract for changed from SIP to NCS on DOCSIS connections. I'm not too familiar with it, as I've only been on the cable side for ~3 yrs vs 15 on the Telco side. Our Telco still uses a along voice for copper customers in the end offices, but of course the backhaul beyond the Nortel switches has been fiber for decades. Anyway, this stuff is a real throwback. My dad's union paid for a computer and dedicated "fax" line in the early 90s. I think the first standard I was accessing BBSes with was 2400 baud. I wish I'd learned more networking stuff or even coding back then. My life would probably be very different now.

​@@kpanic23here in the uk alot of us on an old school copper line still. Unfortunately its being fazed out for voip which is cutting off the elderly who dont want/have broadband. Also the problem if the power is out the phone is out.

I dialed in once from my room in college, and during a lightning strike I overheard some random conversation from I don't know where.

​​​@@cifeyMy wife called some business the other day and while she was waiting on hold, she got disconnected. She told me that just before she got disconnected, she could hear other people's conversations! I think this was actually a pharmacy - could there be liability here for privacy violations? I wonder...

PCB?

@@surject ?? I used WWIV. Not sure what you're asking?

I started mine in the mid '80s in the UK, with 300/300 and 1200/75.

I think Windows 11 does still support dial up (or at least Microsoft didn’t remove the settings page for dial up) As to if dial up will work for initial setup though, I’m not sure