“You’ve got mail”.
And the announcement was made in such a happy tone, as if you’d just received a personal letter in your actual mailbox. It was a novelty, and fun back then...
I also recall, maybe in 1993 (?), going to the International Automobile Show in San Francisco with a good friend. One of the carmakers (maybe BMW?) had a display with audio: the audio was a recording of the screechy screaming buzzing howl a modem used to produce when connecting via dial-up. I suppose the idea was to underscore how ‘cutting edge’ they were... (That was also the year of the cupholder. Cars suddenly had them everywhere. A Plymouth van of some kind won, with I think 14 cupholders...)
If only we knew what was down the road 😏