AOL (Sign On - Dial Up)

the one thing I DON'T miss about the 90s...

[Aikable]

Never ever thought this sound would make me smile..

[emperorreign]

We mock it now, but considering the time, less than 35 seconds to connect to the internet was rather impressive 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[gusbakeru]

I'm still on AOL dial-up...this video took me 4 hours to load.

[valeskamejia]

I fall asleep to this sound in my 30’s… brings me to a time of safety, wonder, and innocence.

[keatonsmith]

And here I am watching this video on a four inch screen that instantly receives a connection twenty times faster than what's shown in the video.

[xcloudxalt]

GET OFF THE INTERNET I NEED TO USE THE PHONE!!

[BuddhaCat]

My goodness, I remember this horrific sound like it was yesterday. You gotta get through this awful sound to hear the MAGICAL sound "You've Got Mail"! Just make sure no one picks up the phone in your house!!!

[BurntTransGarage]

I'm only 35 but this clip makes me feel way old. This was the sound of excitement, of learning, of possibilities when I was a kid. So hard to believe I lived nearly the first 10 years of my life without having any access to internet. Heaven forbid it goes down for a single minute, I'm in a panic restarting every network device.

[AllieRX]

The real sucky part about it was that even if your speakers were muted, you could still hear it. If you wanted to use the internet late at night without waking everybody else up, it was literally impossible.

[drereid]

Happens every time my teacher asks me to answer a question

[TheEinharjar]

"KIDS! NOBODY TOUCH THE PHONE!" - My dad back in '99 ;)

[Anamnesis]

I love how in the dialup days, software developers and engineers assumed everyone wanted to listen to modems talking to each other as much as they did, rather than coming up with some other series of sounds to represent a connection. 😆

[thephenom]

As annoying as this sound is, it's still has a nostalgic place in my heart... and in my eardrums.

[marooorooo]

I’m a teacher, and if my classroom ever gets too rowdy, I play this… nice and loud. The looks of sheer confusion on their faces are enough to bring happy tears to my old lady eyes.

“Ya hear that, kids?! That’s Mrs. M trying to sign onto AOL in 1995! … Uh oh! My sister is trying to call her friend so I got kicked off? I wish we had a second phone line!”

[SillyLittleMunky]

And when you saw "connected" you were like, "Yesss!."

[latoyaforever]

I’m literally crying 🤣🤣🤣 I miss these days Omg!

[karagariglio]

I actually find it an honor that I lived through those days. It was such a different time at the turning point of technology as we know it. And so exciting! I wouldn't change my childhood for the world.

[JeffreyHeesch]

Oops! Someone called you. Better start that shit over again!

[MrMario]

Incredible, haven't heard this since the 90s but for some reason had to look it up.

[TyDie]

I remember hearing this sound as a kid and loving it! To me, it felt like some kind of alien communication. I will always love and appreciate these sounds.