Only a few years ago personal computer users had two choices when they went to hook up their PCs to phone lines. At that time, modems–the devices that enable computers to transmit information over ...
For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...
Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We're talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this ...
[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It’s a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and recently decided to see if it would actually ...
What do you need to call a bulletin board? A computer, of course, and a modem, a device that allows a computer to ”talk” over a telephone line. (Modems translate incoming sound waves to digital ...
As distressing a prospect it may sound, our world did exist before social media. Those were some interesting times with nary a poorly lit portion of Cheesecake Factory fare to critique, exactly zero ...
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ...
Loved the article, Lee. BBS's played such an integral part of my youth that I found it difficult to respond at first; so many memories and discoveries and emotional entanglements came flooding back. I ...
[phreakmonkey] got his hands on a great piece of old tech. It’s a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem. He recieved it in 1989 and recently decided to see if it would actually ...
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