Though broadband is annoying...I recall pages loading faster back in my 56k modem days because they didn't load like 150 items, and Flash ads from 35 domains just to display a news article or something.
The sad thing about the dial-up sound is that it was, at least in later operating systems, entirely optional. You could turn it off. "Off" should have been the fucking standard option, instead of "root around in the control panel somewhere and unclick some box to make the awful screech go away." Nobody ever heard that shit and said "that sounds like music to my ears."
Which makes me think computer people are just misanthropes who all have a little "bastard operator from hell" in them.
I wonder why this is so nostalgic: ancient sound patterns deeply rooted among my childhood-formed neuronal dendrites, or because somebody figured out how cool this sounds and used it in a game/film soundtrack...