A running joke from the late '90s at work: I'd have to send sports box scores via modem to one of our newspaper clients. I'd ask a co-worker if he'd be able to send the data. Each time, instead of sending it via modem, he'd imitate a modem by whistling and replicating the sound of static. Each time, I'd respond, "For some reason, that didn't work. The box scores didn't make it."
Admittedly, whistling and imitating static didn't get the box scores to their destination. Still, when I think of images unique to the '90s, that co-worker's modem imitation often comes to mind.
