Do you remember the sound of a modem dialling up?

From John Pemberton at The Atlantic. A fine piece about those nostalgic electronic chirrups that I remember dearly:

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.

Also worth a browse is the Museum of Endangered Sounds. Utterly wonderful. Features gems like the Encarta MindMaze game, the chunky and delicious sound of a floppy disk loading and the glorious Windows 95 startup sound.