My work uses VoIP and when I call anyone I hear a dial tone.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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Same for the R2D2-56k gatekeeper of the internet; master of the slow reveal.
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 hate you.
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.