The Robot Paradox
3 min readDec 29, 2022
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.