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My parents still used one until about 15 years ago.
Downside of living in the nice rural, but broadband-free, countryside...
I can understand having dial-up 15 years ago, but not having a more modern modem is wild.
They didn't use an acoustic coupler as in the image any more, you are correct ;-)
The noise was also still emitted by the more modern variants during dialing and connection establishment, and as I was reading the meme's text without paying much attention to the symbolic picture, I instantly thought of the standard 56k modem we still had.
Ahh.
The sound was also very different with the later modems. I started on a 9600 baud, and moved to 14400, 28800, and eventually 56k, and they all had different sounds.
My first one already was a 28k one, shortly after followed by the 56k one my parents then kept using for the next 15 years, so I don't quite share your unique experience here... :-)