The Shrinking Modem Sound
The number of people who know the modem sound shrinks everyday
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 514: My Immense Softness
Casey
I get the bad feeling all of our good content happened before we went liveMarco
Don’t worry i’m using some of that for the pre-show in the in the release version all right good deal yeah bootleg people go listen to the release version of like the first you know five minutes and you’ll hear everything that just happened not even 45 seconds yeah listen to the modem soundJohn
How many people i i guess in our audience it’s fine but we always refer to it as the modem sound just the number of people who know what that is or will recognize it when they hear it or know what we’re talking about just shrinks every dayMarco
Yeah but but i think among our i think it’s shrinking in the world but i think in our audience is staying about the same possibly even growingJohn
We need some more period like period piece movies that are that capture that little slice of time when the internet was a thing but most people were getting onto it with modems like that that was not a very long period of time but for the people who lived through it it was significant and no one has really done like a period piece.I mean setting aside like war games and the acoustic coupler and all that this is i’m talking about the like you know 2400 baud and on normal people are on the internet but they’re using modems to do it era
