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.
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 hate you.
My work has landlines, so I still get to hear it
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.
You can pick up a payphone anywhere that still has them and most of them will play a dial tone, though those are starting to dwindle.
Indeed, but most people will not hear it anymore as they don’t use business phones, same as ordinary landline phones
That’s just sparkling doot
Man, reading this sentence felt like a little electric jolt to the brain as it pieced the memes together.
Sometimes I pick up the phone behind my desk and just listen to the dial tone. Having a voip line from my fiber internet provider is cheap. Sometimes I’ll use it to connect my old computers to the line and dial into the few remaining bbs.
I have a captain crunch whistle so I hear it anytime I want to!
You were one of those people.
It is still wild to me that a cheap toy was able to “hack” the phone systems back then.
BZZZZT
That is a VERY powerful vibrator you have there. Not a bumblebee, is it?
Sadly, I had to fax documents recently.
I don’t know. I have several old phones and a touch tone dialing adapter. I like the experience. I can say with high confidence that I’ll hear a dial tone in the future.
Plus, watch any movie from the seventies through the nineties that includes a phone, and you’ll probably hear a dial tone.
My work uses VoIP and when I call anyone I hear a dial tone.
My office phone has a dial tone. It’s VOIP but when you pick up the receiver it BOOOOOOOPs… So I think it was last week I heard one…
Hopefully not for the last time…
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.
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.
It’s only a dial tone if it comes from a land line
otherwise it’s just sparkling audio lies
Well, it’s generated in the same way as modern tones are in a telephone exchange, not a played sample. You can usually configure the tone frequencies (never tried on cisco ip phone, but asterisk allows it for its own generated tones and I had a cisco ATA that let you configure them).
So, unless we’re limiting ourselves to the original mechanically generated dial-tones. I’ll consider them for all intents and purposes to be one and the same.
E.g. for the UK on cisco/sipura ATAs you would use the configuration found here https://teamhelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/208200875-UK-Regional-Settings-Cisco-Linksys-Sipura-Adaptors and as an example (dial tone)
Dial Tone: 350@-19,440@-22;10(*/0/1+2)
The comfort noise is also generally only added when there’s no other noise on the call. This is to prevent you thinking you were disconnected when no-one is talking.
Was coming to type this.
You have an odd fetish
Man…first my mom and now you?
Ceci n’est pas une tonalité
Same for the R2D2-56k gatekeeper of the internet; master of the slow reveal.
I heard it last night in a movie. From an actual phone, it’s been a few years, but less than 10. EDIT: actually, less than 3 years as I had to fax paperwork to get my internet. Japan!
Sadly my parents’ new IP phone service uses the dialtone as some kind of branding trick - you go off-hook and get this “designed” audio prompt that slides into a normal dialtone, presumably to make you remember you’re not just using “the phone”. It was very disconcerting when I first heard it.
