Handshake Protocol

aw c'mon. what's the morse code say?

I thought at first, "Dial up handshake and.. tone pack?"

Spooky bot looks like it's producing part of a Magic Eye image to me.

pretty sure there are some 60s kids who can recognize it too

Is this the first time Melon hasn't greeted Roko with "Socially Appropriate Greeting"?

Oh no I just realized how cute of a thrupple these three would make

Melon has antennae....?

I am now almost positive Melon has a sister named Carrot with remarkably similar hair to this style....

anyone slightly disturbed by Yay speaking in Seismic Waves?

Melon: INDEED STOP IT WAS VERY QUAINT STOP newFriend: INDEED STOP IT WAS VERY QUAINT STOP

The waveforms don't look like what I remember my modem doing. now I wonder what speed that wave is for. They were all different depending on what speed you were trying for. I was actually still using one in the early 2000's. I had 'acquired' an old external hardware modem. 33.6 until I called a number at US Robotics. Then it became a 56.6. Couldn't believe how much faster the computer was when I moved the modem from internal to external. Good times.

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum had the best noises when it was loading.

...Or was it the Mod-ems?

Oh yeah this is from that avant-garde music group, The Bauds....

Also, to answer Roko's questions: Yes, this is her life now

Melon is so adorable when she smiles.

Once at a mid-1990s computer club meeting (HAAUG), I was working behind the share/freeware disk purchase station. The club librarian mentioned, in passing, to a customer, the modem noise. Instantly about 5 of us started making the modem connect noise (yes, from our mouths). The slow turn and glare we received from her just made us bust out howling with laughter. Thank you for dredging up this treasured memory. :-D

It's just... all the Clickwise, you know? It puts people off, Carl.

I like Melon's haircut. Super... melon

When did Melon go all Wood Sprite?

QAM matrices?

"Indeed. It was very quaint."

Melon and Roko:

Is Spookybot doing the modem sound in her spectrum as well?

I read the panel in the voice of the 90's phone scream.

I think it stopped being 'your' apartment the day Melon burned a portal in the ceiling.

I remember when your computer shrieked at the telephone, and the telephone screamed back, and then you were ready to go on-line.

Melon was acoustic modem dialing and handshaking. Yay's sending out something very high-bandwidth, from the image. Not the Bloop signal, though. SETI spectrogram?

This is my favourite.

Oh my god Melon's hair is friggin adorable

A few weeks ago I actually heard someone use the modem screech as a ringtone.

I used to hate that modem startup sound, but if I heard it now, I'd come a-runnin', just to see who was kicking it oldskool.

Why did they both say the same thing? I am so confused. Also, you guys have to use a web site to translate morse code? Poseurs. ;)

Melon "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." Roko "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." Sigh....

I forget, did Yay say the thing about how Melon isn't stupid, she just thinks differently, in the comic itself, or was that somebody in the comment sections? Melon smashes all her dishes down to a fine powder or something, and Yay explained that Melon had been trying to store them or wash them or something, and this was technically the way to get the most dishes in the least amount of space? Ringing a bell for anybody? This would seem to be in line with that. Melon apparently is versed in a number of languages and communication channels, but many of them are dead or obsolete. The most eloquent woman in the room but nobody can understand her.

Dunno about the waveform, but both of them are saying "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." in Morse code.

No one's going to ask the obvious question, is Melon a part of Yay's network?

Melon is looking very All-Might with that hair.

Melon: INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT.

I'd of thought she'd be more of a PSK31 fan, but there's no school like the old school. I used to be able to whistle up 212A compatible modems or at least get them to start the handshake.

Someone is bound to translate that. And also post that wave form.

Both Melon and Yay are saying "INDEED. IT WAS VERY QUAINT." in the morse code. I assume the audio is dial-up, considering the commentary.

Melon got a new hair don't!

Hands up who else immediately dashed over to a morse code translator website to read this?

Man, this comic is like a battle fleet without air support

Are they...acoustically coupling?!?

Is... is Melon using dial-up? Also who’s the nerd who’s gonna translate that Morse code?

For all of us, yes please, please translate

Aw hell... Now I gotta translate that....