I remember trying to set up modem games of SSI's Dark Legions with a friend from school. We'd set up a time, and inevitably when I'd call him, his mom would answer and I'd hear her very confused shouting into the modem noise.

Same.

You slow asses, five is the one that I readily recognize


56k4lyfe!

During a hard rain or wind (the latter of which occurred a majority of the year where I grew up) my modem would connect with the 3 sound and any websites more complex than text or simple GIFs took an eternity to load. Hearing that fucking sound again triggered a lot of bad memories.

I recognize the sequence that is present in 3, 4, and 5, but based on the dates I probably heard #4. Modems would know to mute certain parts of the sound once they figured out they were connected, so I don't think I ever heard all of #4.

ATM2

My father had a 14.4k, and then I think I had a 28.8k and a 56k, but I only really recognize the 2800 baud from going online first at a friend's house, and the 28.8k. I don't really remember the 56k as well as the 2800 and 28.8k.

Your BBS sounds familiar, though that could be a figment of my imagination. I had some list of 408 area code bbs's, but never spent much time on them.

I used to run a hotline server in the 90s, warezing mac software. Ah those were the days.

well, we were in the same area. something like '89-'92 i'd say. nothin special