[ih] Internet sounds

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) lyndon at orthanc.ca
Tue Apr 26 14:48:50 PDT 2022


> For instance, I remember the clatter of teletypes, Telebit and Hayes
> modem tones, VT52 buzzes, the RF interference caused screeches from
> the AM radio perched near IMP #1, the PC/IP telnet "chirp", the
> sound of a DECwriter, etc.

These are all generic computer sounds.  Nothing to do with the Internet
per se. (Well, okay, the IMP :-))

For me, the first "sound" that I would definitively associate with
the Internet specifically is Carl Malamud's _Internet Talk Radio_
program from 1993.

--lyndon



More information about the Internet-history mailing list