Subscriber Mailbag: Q) Are you working on a quieter modem? We already have modems with optional mute buttons, but our older customers tell us they like the screeching because it reminds them of their departed spouses.
Had to learn how to install the internet gateway into the corporate MSMail email system. That used dial-up modems to exchange e-mail with the other corporate offices.
I miss New York. Explaining to a friend how dial-up modems worked, noticing a woman in her 60s listening, looking her way, and having her say "no, please keep going, this is fascinating". Helping an 80-year-old woman collect her spilled groceries and receiving her life story as a reward.
I met my husband on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) back when the Internet was text-based and modems squealed like a disrespected narcissist 🤭
Yes; for years Clarke refused to write a sequel to 2001, but the Voyager images of Jovian moons proved too much temptation, so he and his characters returned. Other new things: aerobraking, Cray-generated Jupiter, and using modems to collaborate across the world on a screenplay.
Så var der bare nok ikke 56 k modems nok til alle i dag. :/
Things I don't really understand about my company. We do digital IF using digitizers to IP traffic modems using Vita49/DIFI framing. But the digital "modem" doesn't have a BER curve. Everything operates similar to analogue RF in theory, but the core is all digital.
Remember the "hawk tuah" girl? That seems as long ago as dial-up modems. Remember silent movies? That's basically a similar length of time. Remember the Bronze Age? Remember the meteor that killed the dinosaurs? That was the same day
