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 ...
[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26108681#p26108681:1qqweq91 said: KhunRoger[/url]":1qqweq91]Hmph! If we're really getting into it... The first ...
45 years after it was first created, Livermore Data Systems’ “Model A” Acoustic Coupler Modem finally gets hooked up to the Internet, and travels to the World Wide Web at a whopping 300 baud. The slow ...