AOL (Sign On - Dial Up)

@Aikable 7年前

Never ever thought this sound would make me smile..

@xcloudx01alt 4年前

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

@marooorooo 2年前

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? Maaaaan, I wish we had a second phone line!”

@valeskamejia6523 2年前

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

@drereid2123 7年前

Happens every time my teacher asks me to answer a question

@gusbaker4u 6年前

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

@latoyaforever 11ヶ月前

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

@BurntTransGarage 8ヶ月前

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.

@keatonsmith5669 9年前

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.

@emperorreign6154 3年前

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

@TyDie85 1年前

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.

@Anamnesis 8ヶ月前

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. 😆

@TheEinharjar 7年前

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

@BuddhaCat 8年前

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!!!

@Guap303 1年前

Nothing was louder than this sound at 11 at night trying to log online while everyone is asleep.

@WardySnow 2年前

Honestly, I'd do anything to go back to these times.

@JeffreyHeesch 9年前

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

@SillyLittleMunky 7年前

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

@greghoeman6629 1年前

There are very few huge corporations that I have any genuine fondness or nostalgia for. AOL is one of them. It was an excellent and efficient service that brought digital commication to the common man like the torch of Prometheus. The chat rooms were great. The software was well engineered. Computer nerddom owes AOL an apology. The demise of that brand with the Advent of high speed cable honestly makes me sad. I would wear an AOL t shirt.

@flmbyz 8ヶ月前

Played this for my 9 year old just now. Explained what the significance was behind the sounds. She literally asked: “How did your generation survive?”