Two colleagues, both in their 20s, were talking about times gone by one day in office when the internet connection was particularly poor and websites were taking forever to load. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when the younger of the two remarked, “This reminds me of those dial-up days. Remember, when you waited and waited while the computer made all sorts of sounds?”
It indeed used to be quite an orchestra of bleeps, bloops, screeches and darrrarrrums, which would — if you were lucky — culminate in the blessed sound of Windows starting up. The symphony of the