How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
Tech Won't Save Us
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What Are the Key Elements of a Modem?
By the end of the 19 seventies in the us, the telephone net work is really robust. It's highly reliable. But it was opened around the edges so that you could attach other devices to the system without permission. And one of those things you could attach was a modem. The earliesta systems we're talking about were dial up bulletin board systems. They are literally a computerization of the community bulletin board,. Like cork and pin system where people post notices to each other.
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