If you could hear the internet, what would it sound like?

[gorcorps]

I think it's pretty obvious what it would sound like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

dammit, I came in to post that

 

[alkemyst]

Where the hell is the mute button?

It'd have to be a loud cacophony of noise...made up of self-important blowhards like Alky, whiners like Trident, and P&N ravings...all mixed with the various noises of pron.

In other words, it'd sound very much like an average Friday night in Oldsmoboat's basement.

lol do you realize you are probably our biggest whiner.

Everyone looks at you like the guy that cries about walking to school uphill in both directions.

Thanks for at least keeping a thesaurus next to you when you post. Shit I don't have that time of day to do the same.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Static.

 

[caddlad]

 

[meltdown75]

wtf D:

 

[HAL9000]

Apparently this image represents internet usage, so theoretically if someone could put this through a program that could create music rather than an image we'd have an answer...

http://thesinosaudiblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/internet-map.jpg

 

[Rubycon]

like the beginning of the movie Contact, except instead of all the mixed tv/radio/media audio, you hear peoples voices, except they're all digitized like in the Matrix

also, fap fap fap

Yes you would not hear programming in digital just hash...

The beginning of Contact is interesting. With the propagation of analog broadcasts leaving the planet going fast enough to "catch" them traveling back into time until silence falls before the advent of electricity. There would be popping sounds from the Marconi wireless systems. Lightning existed of course and its power sferics would radiate outward as well.

Static is fascinating to listen to but that's discussion for a completely different topic altogether.

 

[meltdown75]

Yes you would not hear programming in digital just hash...

The beginning of Contact is interesting. With the propagation of analog broadcasts leaving the planet going fast enough to "catch" them traveling back into time until silence falls before the advent of electricity. There would be popping sounds from the Marconi wireless systems. Lightning existed of course and its power sferics would radiate outward as well.

Static is fascinating to listen to but that's discussion for a completely different topic altogether.

do you listen for patterns in the chaos?

hmm maybe i will pop that dvd in later

 

[Engineer]

If you run the internet backwards, it sounds like a Chicago album.

 

[Rubycon]

do you listen for patterns in the chaos?

hmm maybe i will pop that dvd in later

There are some patterns during specific events. Leading to events (we're dealing only with sferics here) is very easy to pick up. The falling charge events before buildup OTOH are quite random.

Pointing a sensitive photovoltaic detector at an active cumulonimbus cloud and patching it to the left channel of a headset while the right channel is fitted to a 160 meter AM receiver and letting your brain hear the differences is quite amazing if not terrifying at times.