Everyone of an age remembers the distinctive dial-up modem sounds but why were they audible to begin with?
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Some of the first modems had a physical dock to put a handset on, so there had to be an audible exchange of data. As that was the norm, being able to audibly hear it was dialing was a bit of a carryover. The last gens of modems were silent, but piped the sounds into your sound card, a setting you could turn off in Windows settings.
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