Back in my day, we had dial-up internet, not broadband, usually run by AOL Yes, that annoyingly screechy thing that sounds like a dying cat as it's connecting. It separated the men from the mice o' aye.
While we're on the topic... [video=youtube;gsNaR6FRuO0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0[/video] I used to have to listen to this tone forever before connecting.