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It just sounds just like the railroads of the 19th century.Modems used to be $300 for kilobits.
Modems used to be $300 for kilobits.
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.
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.
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.
- 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
born with some kind of technology, telephones, television, computers, modems, and all that kind of stuff.
Male #4: Is it all surreal to have starred in Hackers where they're talking about 14.4 modems and then 15 years later
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