the.com/dial up
the sound of the internet clearing its throat before saying anything.
means an internet connection sent over a phone line, screeching through a handshake before crawling along at a few kilobits per second.
from named for literally dialing a phone number to connect two modems, a ritual that dominated home internet from the early 90s until broadband quietly euthanized it in the 2000s.
top speedabout 56 kbps, if you were lucky
that screechmodems negotiating protocols audibly, called handshaking
tied up phoneone line meant no calls while browsing
aol discsmailed by the millions to lure new users