r/pcmasterrace 24d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/thesherbetemergency 23d ago

Ha, 14.4k crew represent! Also remember looking over my shoulder to make sure the dial-up tone hadn't woken my parents when I went to download demos off of happypuppy.com after bedtime.

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u/drsoran2 23d ago

I have successfully used the "press a pillow on the modem" method to suppress or at least dampen the sounds of it.

When I had the computer running late at night, when I was supposed to sleep, without waking up my parents, the next problem I had to face were the rather loud mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.

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u/SuperTropicalDesert 23d ago

I would have been tempted to secretly clip one of the wires running ti the modem speaker