[ih] Internet sounds

[Toerless Eckert]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:34:13AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> > For me, the first "sound" that I would definitively associate with
> > the Internet specifically is Carl Malamud's _Internet Talk Radio_
> > program from 1993.
> 
> "On June 24, 1993, the band Severe Tire Damage was the first to
> perform live on the Mbone."
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone#History)
> 
> But there was audio and video using early versions of VIC/VAT before
> 1993. I was in a transatlantic teleconf at UCL in 1991, and I seem to
> remember remote audio in the very early days of RIPE (1989?).

Same here. Alas i do not remember the exact dates, but the first sound
"across" the Internet for me was most likely VIC/VAT conferences too.
MICE project @UCL for example was quite active.  I think to remember
that the "places all over the world" channel also had audio
and of course my later boss was at NASA posting NASA TV to the MBone.
think We also quickly "commercialized" the MBone ourselves to replace
actual monthly business travel in our region (bavaria).

Other early sounds would be early multi-user XWindows games that we played
even between cities. In my experience, that remote display rendering was
was fast enough with 64kbps links, which we got at hmm. 1988 i think.
And those games had some bits of sounds..

Equipment noise specific to Internet/networking was more boring in that
time-frame when one luckily didn't have to work with actual audio channel
modems (or didn't do audiofications? like Carsten - Nice!). I guess most
home users would still consider such modem noise as Internet noise throughout
the 90th.  I mostly remember that i had to start complaining about the noise of
router fans starting at the end of the 80, and couldn't stop silencing them 
myself until about 20 years later, when there where seemingly enough user who
complained about it so vendors started to put in silent fans.

Cheers
    Toerless

> Archives from those days may be hard to find, however. Mark Handley
> might have some pointers for the UCL work.
> 
> Regards
>    Brian
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