Beeping marvellous
It's a sad day when you realise that you'll never hear the sound of a dial-up modem again. That digital crunching noise that seared phone lines around the world as people connected to this thing of wonder -the Internet - for the first time.
It's also a sad day when you realise there's a whole generation of kids being born who will never know sounds that represented such a simpler time.
Back then, we had to have patience, maybe go away and make cups of tea as our internet connection established, yelling when someone would pick up the phone and try and make a call, disconnecting us from our MUD game. Remembering the abject joy when our favourite games console loaded up, eventually, without demanding we download a two-hour update before we're allowed to play anything.
There are many sounds that we associate with those simpler times. Here are some of our favourites.
7.The GameCube startup sounds
Not technically a 90's console, it was released in 2001 so it's close enough to join this older batch of sonic nostalgia finds.
Did you know it possible to vary your Gamecube boot experience with the right key presses? If not, we pity you. Luckily, you can hear them right here:
8. The sound of a dot-matrix printer.
Having homework, reports or graphs to print was always a chore because of how long it took. Printing was both highly irritating (and loud) and also oddly soothing as the printer screeched out the sounds of your work - and you were lucky if you managed a page a minute.
