This is what happens when kids try dial-up Internet for the first time

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Sam Haysom
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Remember dial-up Internet? All that horrendous beeping and churning during the five minutes it took you to connect?

Well, small kids today don't remember, and when they hear those trademark dial-up sounds for the first time in the clip above, they have some pretty inventive ways of describing the racket.

Our favourite kid is the one who says he thinks dial-up sounds like "the moon," before going on to say, quite cryptically, "I would imagine that the dinosaurs and the aliens would dance together."

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