How to pronounce “modem” in English

The modem unit is actually the tricky part of this.

It was just modem to modem.

And also the modem unit.

of 28.8 modem, so it's very primitive technology.

300 B modem would blindingly fast send the the order

Why are all these modems blinking red and black and making funny sounds?"

and buying more modems and buying more Amigas.

You had 300 baud modems powered by hamsters.

from 56K modems all the way up to what we have now where I have Google Fiber.

When broadband technology came along-- cable modems, optical fiber modems, and DSL, for example-- the number of providers telescoped down to very few.

And now Woods Hole is developing optical modems that are almost like streetlights.

network with your friends or you could connect with a modem and hook up with somebody.

at five minutes to the hour with a 2,400 baud modem to send and receive all the email for the entire company.

You needed to have an ethernet cable or a modem plug or whatever.

And so you just had to rent a bunch of modem banks in order to be an internet service provider.

And I was using a laptop with one of those portable modem things in it and using earphones.

So there is a character that arrives who is a modem.

So you go from basically going on a dial-up modem-- I'm just a brain on a stick, disembodied, disconnected, only perceiving and receiving information

computer you you'd plug it into this something called a modem that would then dial into the internet you would download the entire conversation onto

so it's about the speed of a cable modem um and the interesting thing about that

words and when the computer typed words back at slow modem speeds we're talking 110 B we're talking 10 characters a

So it was two PCs talking through dial up modems.

and how do we convince the PC manufacturers to actually build modems into PCs so it wasn't a peripheral device.

At that time, if you connect a modem to a phone line, an unknown person’s ID appears on the computer monitor.

Yeah, I had a 4,800 baud internal modem on my dad's laptop.

Again, you have the acoustics modem here doing a survey, a kind of optical spotlight kind of modem, other kinds of modalities, maybe there's a buoy

had an Olivetti terminal, a decoustacoupler 110 baud modem, so you can imagine 110 baud.

is that you know if you watch a video over a cable modem it's not particularly

It happened to be a software modem in this case to one of their Japanese partners.

And those 3% were online one hour a week through mostly 300 baud modems.

But parallel with this was the rise of the technology of acoustic modems.

Before we had the internet in the hands of consumers, you used your modem and you dialed into a local phone number

And they, you know, by telephone and modem and so on, we were building these little 2D games and having quite a lot of success.

And the startup, the modem, like ..

But at that time, I was just using a modem to talk to another modem.

I mean, it's like the first step is admitting you have a modem.

And when I started my first technology job, I didn't know a modem from a microwave.

out letters and so then I so I designed this little terminal I could now type on my own keyboard go through a modem which

- Yeah, it was really borne out of the BBS era when people were dialing in on modems to download trialware and shareware and other things from BBSs

But as a consumer, back then we had these modems, you know, this thing you plug into your phone line and it dials up on phone number

Even 250 of the subscribers at the time who were pretty much using maybe phone lines and modems to dial, right?

And what we had at school was an Olivetti 110 baud terminals, acoustic coupler modems and we had a PDP 11, I think it was like an 11/34 running RISC to CED , in downtown Los

And I remember rolling into Quake matches, you know, on a dial-up modem with a 300 ping connection,

And these were really slow three, you know, the first modem I had was 300 bauds.

You know, when I started photography 14 years ago, I dealt with dial-up squeaking modem.

I think I started, by the way, with a 9,600-- 96 kilobaud modem, or 9.6 kilobaud modem.

So again, everything was designed for speed on PLATO through 1,200 bit per second serial or modem connections.

I've been reading SMBC since I had to load it up on a dial-up modem.

personal computers, but a lot of people had Atari game machines, and this was basically a modem that turned their game machine into a two way device.