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I was actually thinking about these sounds the other day, and if it would be possible to replicate them well enough using your own voice to actually be read as data. Maybe not necessarily the modem thing, but recording onto a cassette for a DAT drive. Would be a dope test of your mimickry skills if you could shout a bunch of noise and end up with a picture.
I posted this below, but I used to be able to whistle in a way to make a modem or fax handshake and connect. Couldn't do any data, but I could make it connect.