fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoEnthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speedswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1410arrow-down14cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1406arrow-down1external-linkEnthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speedswww.tomshardware.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square34fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoSemi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this; … the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives. https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhbBYLB90U0
minus-squaremasterofn001@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoOn an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present: [the user] symphony for dot matrix printers https://vimeo.com/6868193 (I actually have a t-shirt from this artist - saw them at mutek festival in Montreal in 2000something.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoExquisite. I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.
Semi-barely-related thing that popped into my brain on imagining the sound of this;
… the UNATCO theme from Deus Ex played by an ‘orchestra’ of floppy drives.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhbBYLB90U0
On an even unrelateder note but tangentially semi-related to your comment, may I present:
[the user] symphony for dot matrix printers
https://vimeo.com/6868193
(I actually have a t-shirt from this artist - saw them at mutek festival in Montreal in 2000something.
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn’t intended to make music.