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Roblox dial up internet sound effects have a weird way of triggering a very specific type of digital PTSD for anyone who grew up in the early 2000s, but in the context of Roblox, it's usually just the setup for a joke or a sign that your game is about to crash. There is something fundamentally hilarious about a high-tech, multiplayer metaverse platform using the screeching, crunching, and whirring noises of a 56k modem from 1995. Whether you're hearing it in a meme-heavy "Obby" or it's being used to signal a deliberate "glitch" aesthetic in a horror game, that sound has become a staple of the platform's audio library. ...