Kinda annoying that it plays the modem handshake sound while printing dots to the terminal. The handshake would only ever happen at the beginning of the call, before any actual data is received by the user. After the initial handshake the modem speaker would switch off, and the rest of the session would be silent.
I didn't feel great posting my objection, but really... one of the nicest things about the old terminal days was the silence. Just you and the terminal and some system far away.
Obligatory Google BBS reply: Now the whole script of how it would connect comes from a viral video by Squirrel-Monkey.com (see also the link at the page). "Google BBS" just put this into interactive reality. On the sound: This is not a technical feature of the modem, but you would have actually a modem-script to switch it to mute. (The usual configuration was: I want to here the handshake sequence, but as soon as the connection stands, mute. But this was actually scripted behavior. You could have it all mute or monitor sound all the time. There are two distinctive sounds and the second one – reconnecting & fetching more data – isn't a handshake sound.)
@sdfjkl - I found the joke on GOOGLE.COM and the typo actually funny in the original video and wouldn't have wanted to miss it in the application.
That, and a few other things. For example, you wouldn't launch an executable named GOOGLE.COM, you'd launch your terminal emulator[1] and then select the Google BBS from a phonebook (or enter the number manually, perhaps even with ATDT in front). Also, 8-bit ANSI art[2] was rapidly embraced by BBSes in those days (what you see is 7-bit with colors).
