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It plays a video simulating logging into a BBS-based Google - then actually works.

With modem sounds and appropriate on-screen messaging.

(I worked at Hayes as a production and warranty repair tech from 1986 - 1990. All of this is amazingly evocative for me.)

That us abso-freakin-lutely hilarious! Boy, does that bring back memories.

I work for Google these days... guess what I'll be forwarding to my cow-orkers tomorrow!

Semi-related: An acoustic coupler MODEM (circa 1964) that actually works.

Ah yes! Hayes Micro Modem 200 baud dial up -- plus another card for my Apple ][...

And later, I actually went out and spend something like $400 for a 2400 baud US Robotics modem -- 12 times faster! Wow!