I just got back upstairs from my neighbors house. He was having trouble connecting up to the Internet with his modem. Whenever he does he gets a crackling noise that comes over the speaker. Plus it ...

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...