How to Crush a Millennial — Dial-Up Internet

Chris T
2 min readJan 13, 2021

BEEP, BLRRRRR, MREEEEE, EEEEE-EEEEE-EEEEE, ERRRRR, ABLING, ABLING, SHHHHHHHHHH, TRRRRRR, SHHHHHHH… the reminiscent sounds of our phone line connecting to an internet server.

Back in those days if you wanted to see an image you would click to download it, go get a beverage, come back and drink it, and maybe by the time you were finished it would be ready to view. Want to watch a movie…

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