Post #2042923
2023-04-29 18:55 UTC
Replies (35)
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@zerosouls@defcon.social 2023-04-29 20:19
@major@fosstodon.org screaming robots
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@hrw@society.oftrolls.com 2023-04-29 22:21
@major@fosstodon.org someone should make NetworkManager plugin to generate those sounds.
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@ScottMGS@justme.masto.host 2023-04-30 16:47
@major@fosstodon.org To be fair, it still comes through my phone and largely consists of screaming bots so...
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@god@tlv.cool 2023-04-30 19:52
@major@fosstodon.org I still remember how the sequence of beeps and screeches of a successful modem connection sounded like. Oh, those were horrid times! 😱
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@eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com 2023-04-30 19:55
@major@fosstodon.org Now the internet comes through the smartphone and it sounds like robots screaming nonsense.
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@ScruffyJunco@home.social 2023-04-30 21:43
@major@fosstodon.org So true. I used to work with people who could tell the speed of the connection by the buzzing and screeches. I kinda miss that.
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@BrisVegas@aus.social 2023-04-30 21:49
@major@fosstodon.org I feel seen!!! 🤣
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@riley@toot.cat 2023-04-30 22:19
@major@fosstodon.org: The kids these days just can't hear the low-pitched screeching of the Internet robots.
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@anne_twain@theblower.au 2023-04-30 22:37
@major@fosstodon.org Yep. You had to fit two rubber cups on the receiver. (Kid wonders what a receiver was.) That's part of the phone, dear. ( Kid wonders where you'd fit rubber cups on a smartphone.)
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2023-04-30 23:09
@major@fosstodon.org Kids? I have work colleagues that think this!
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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2023-05-01 00:32
@major@fosstodon.org oblig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMZZX0zsbxg
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@pyrox@pyrox.dev 2023-05-01 01:10
@major@fosstodon.org the problem is that all the cables today are sound insulated, and wifi waves do not have sound, so we cannot hear their constant screams for help. If only we all knew the horrors within…
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@c_dan4th@mstdn.social 2023-05-01 01:24
@major@fosstodon.org The internet *is* nothing but screaming robots.
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@juliew2010@aus.social 2023-05-01 01:43
@major@fosstodon.org Or you get a pat on the head. Yes, you already told us that 😂😂
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@TheSteve0@data-folks.masto.host 2023-05-01 01:50
@major@fosstodon.org Content Warning dude - CONTENT WARNING. I feel attacked
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@Debideaux@mstdn.social 2023-05-01 02:52
@major@fosstodon.org OMG, I just heard that telephone modem screech in my head when I read this.
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@spacelizard@aus.social 2023-05-01 03:19
@major@fosstodon.org I miss that sound.
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@voron@mstdn.party 2023-05-01 03:59
@major@fosstodon.org @rivetgeek@dice.camp 😂👍
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@rmkelly@zirk.us 2023-05-01 05:16
@major@fosstodon.org Gold.
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@Deus@charcha.cc 2023-05-01 05:51
You should show them this (or related) video(s) :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPMAoXEJ4Q
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@adamhotep@infosec.exchange 2023-05-01 06:10
@major@fosstodon.org My favorite variant of that: Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet. We didn't listen to this warning. Now it's too late.
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@Noordkaapfujin@mastodon.social 2023-05-01 07:50
@major@fosstodon.org Today on the internet, the robots sound like screaming humans.
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@codewiz@mstdn.io 2023-05-01 08:35
This is what dialup sounded like... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w @major@fosstodon.org
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@MostlyTato@mstdn.social 2023-05-01 09:07
@major@fosstodon.org Haha it really did sound like screaming robots. I also remember the screaming robots noise when taking 5m to load a ZX Spectrum game from tape! 😲
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@billvinson@hachyderm.io 2023-05-01 11:32
@major@fosstodon.org I always thought of it as machines finding harmony 😄
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@admin@m.bohlenlabs.com 2023-05-01 13:27
@major@fosstodon.org So cool. In fact, I am "300 baud" and "$0.50 per kilobyte" years old. 😄
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@Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org 2023-05-01 17:08
@major@fosstodon.org OH SHIT!!! That's me!
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@johnelalamo@mcr.wtf 2023-05-02 14:39
@major@fosstodon.org OH:”It did”😂😂
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@prefec2@norden.social 2023-05-03 20:52
@major@fosstodon.org it sounds still the same way, but current day router don't use loudspeakers to tell anybody. 🫣 Could be a nice maker project.🤔
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@ByMatthewPorter@mastodon.social 2023-05-03 21:38
@major@fosstodon.org Remember that extra little “bong” you’d get on a 56k connection? So satisfying.
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@SrRochardBunson@calckey.social 2023-05-09 23:05
@major@fosstodon.org 🤣 Time to call Old Glory https://youtu.be/g4Gh_IcK8UM
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@IdahoLark@syringa.social 2023-05-12 03:52
@major@fosstodon.org @Debnumbers@universeodon.com I feel seen.
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug@social.cologne 2023-05-12 16:35
@major@fosstodon.org Ha! I knew I had seen, and boosted, this one before, recently, and here it is, from 12 days ago! Of course I boosted it from today's person, as well. It's a good meme. 👍 This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last. No "breaches of etiquette" were made, and none are implied. No one "stole" anything from anybody. It's kinda silly to claim ownership of a meme once it's in the wild and reproducing, anyway. #TheArtOfShitposting
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@darcher@fosstodon.org 2023-06-25 18:43
@major@fosstodon.org you might be amused to learn that we heard the screaming robots for the first time in many years yesterday, when our voice line got a wrong number call from a modem. We really wondered who it was and what they were doing, but weren't quite bold enough to dig out a modem try and contact them back.
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@SueDiOh@mastodon.social 2024-07-09 18:03
@major@fosstodon.org It's funny because it's true!