From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Retrograde  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:42:46 -0000 (UTC)   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:16:32 -0600, Retrograde wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.   
   >>   
   >> That would require you to keep a landline, though.   
   >>   
   >> Plus the fact that telco backhauls are increasingly based on VoIP, using   
   >> the common Internet infrastructure, the irony of using that high-speed   
   >> Internet to offer voice service, which is then used to offer low-speed   
   >> Internet on top of that ... is ever so slightly staggering.   
   >   
   >   
   > You make two very good points.  I'm happy to be free of the landline.   
   > I do harbor some nostalgia for the sound of the modem connecting though.   
      
   If you really want the sound, there are recorded WAV files one can find   
   via a search that you could use to playback each time you begin to use   
   the computer to satisify the nostalgia.   
      
   Reality however is one very quickly adjusts to "the internet is just   
   always on" and pays no attention to the lack of squeeks and sqawls in   
   order to connect.   
      
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