Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.
I will never be silenced!
I’ve been meaning to ask, has anyone ever told you your F is a tad sharp for equal temperament? I’m not suggesting you change. I think your clean beat frequency makes you pretty cool just the way you are.
Did you… join during the Rexodus and wait all this time just for this joke? 🤣 (if there is a more mundane explanation, I don’t want to know - I prefer this one:-)
I’m so angry today, that I didn’t even catch the joke. It wasn’t until I was making my own reply of confusion that I needed to copy the username of who said that, that I realized their name was /u/dialtone
Then I got their joke. I still don’t know what a Rexodus is though.
Rexxit
Dial tone still exists. Pretty much every business phone that’s most likely a VoIP line still generates dial tone to the user’s headset.
That’s just sparkling doot
Last time I heard a dial tone was just a second ago when I pushed the speakerphone button on my Cisco ip phone.
It’s actually fake, though. IP phones “play” that. Also, when on a call, they insert "comfort noise, that very low hiss you may hear, to augment the odd feeling most get with crystal clear VOIP audio.
Was coming to type this.
You have an odd fetish
Man…first my mom and now you?
On a similar note for parents: At some point, you did/will pick your child up and then put them down for the last time.
I listen to it every day at work when connecting to customers alarm systems.
I still hear a dial-up modem when I close my eyes
I have a captain crunch whistle so I hear it anytime I want to!
BZZZZT
That is a VERY powerful vibrator you have there. Not a bumblebee, is it?
I have a landline, I hear a dial tone every time I pick up the phone.
Low-key way of informing everyone that nobody ever calls your landline.
Or that they’re the ones making all the calls.
What’s even worse is in some countries the file tone was a pretty good match for a guitar note so some musicians would use it as a starting point to tune their guitars.
True, I remember tuning my guitar to it. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
