The Robot Paradox

Alexander Hayes
3 min readDec 29, 2022
Image: LOTM-001–15 SD 2.0

In 1996 I recall assembling by third router to connect to our fixed landline telephone service socket which had been tucked away under a small office nook in my home, built in 1920.

The 56.6kbps modem emitted a series of wonderful robotic sounding audio bytes that, had I been imbued with the foresight, then I would have recorded myself… but here is that sound.

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