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title: "The sounds of dialup on a Spectrogram"
description: "\\ This beautiful Spectrogram video is instant nostalgia for any of us who used BBSes back in the 80s and 90s. The video comes from (https://www.youtube.com/user/bitcoredotorg…"
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author: "James Lewis"
date: "2013-11-26T12:25:17Z"
lastmod: "2015-03-24T22:19:59Z"
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categories: ["around-the-web"]
tags: ["aol","dial-up","modem","spectrogram"]
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# The sounds of dialup on a Spectrogram


[YouTube video vvr9AMWEU-c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c)


This beautiful Spectrogram video  is instant nostalgia for any of us who used BBSes back in the 80s and 90s.  The video comes from [Scott H on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/bitcoredotorg "Dialup Modem on Spectrogram").

Several of the videos I have made incorporate the initial connection sound (until the echo suppression is disabled.)

Enjoy this blast from the past, unless you are one of the _3 million subscribers_ mentioned in AOL's 2012 Annual Report, which still use dial-up!