When was the last time you heard that distinctive clunk of a pay phone hanging up? Or the screech of a modem coming to life? They're the sounds we lived with for decades and once represented cutting ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

No dial tone. Ah, we probably just left one of the phones off the hook last night. We’re always doing that to guard nighttime and naptime. Our family and friends hate it, but, hey, in the house of a 3 ...