you can actually hear data being sent
over the internet remember this sound
that was the actual data being sent over
a dial-up connection if you heard this
noise you were basically eavesdropping
on the conversation your modem was
having with your isp to figure out
exactly how fast to transmit data and at
exactly what frequency in fact the whole
reason modems had speakers was so that
you could hear for yourself if something
went wrong with the connection
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and get this if you picked up another
phone in your house while someone was
online you could hear the data moving
through the pipes but if you wanted to
know what they were actually looking at
it was usually a lot easier to just peek
over their shoulder