There's a big merger this week, Verizon Bot AOL.

And if you like us, when you hear AOL,

you immediately think of this sound.

Now, I realized, I heard that sound probably a thousand times in the 90s.

Now, I realized, I heard that sound probably a thousand times in the 90s and early 2000s but I actually

have no idea what's going on there.

On the line with this now is a Finnish hacker named Onna who knows all about these sounds.

So yeah, it was it sounded a bit

unnecessary for me to hear all these beads and boobs that I can make no sense of. So first of all this is phone call. It's

particularly a phone call between two computers, within two modems to be

exact. And we have this art language. We start with the basics like, yes, I'm modem, hello.

Okay, so we're going to take what Oana told us and translate the conversation

happening between your computer and the dial-up service into English.

I'm a modem.

Hello, let's talk like modems talk. Yes, let's talk like modems talk.

Yes, let's talk, like modems, because we are modems.

I am testing the phone line.

Does this sound okay?

It sounds great, my modem friend.

How fast can we transfer data?

Very fast, even though it's the 90s.

Great.

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