Post #3061198
2025-06-12 06:24 UTC
@asakiyume@wandering.shop @janeishly@beige.party aye, we had it tough my first modem did 1200/75., etc
Replies (1)
-
@asakiyume@wandering.shop 2025-06-12 12:10
@rgammans@dice.camp @janeishly@beige.party I remember the first modem I ever saw, before I knew the word "modem." It was when I was a kid in the 1970s, in the house of friends we only saw when we were visiting our grandmother in the summer. Their dad worked at MIT. It was a literal curly-cord phone receiver that you stuck into a cradle. Our friends showed us how, through that connection, they could chat about math questions with MIT students. ... one of those friends later went on to win a Nobel prize.