This is what the Internet sounded like.

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It’s the sound of a modem connecting with another modem across the repurposed telephone infrastructure. It was the noise of being part of the beginning of the Internet.

— Alexis Madrigal, “The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol’ Dial-Up Modem Sound,” The Atlantic