#modems

[timeclonemike]

Before the spread of the World Wide Web, the closest analogue in cultural terms was the collection of Computer Bulletin Board Systems or BBS services. Individual computers would connect directly to other computers via phone line in order to exchange information. These systems were limited by the technology of their era; client and service computers often had limited space, dial up modems had bandwidth so low as to be laughable by modern standards, and portable storage was limited primarily to magnetic floppy disks that could not even hold 2 MB of data. There were also issues of competing file formats and a lack of standardization, with ASCII being the lowest-common-denominator choice. Images were usually limited to ASCII art representations, as a lot of the file compression algorithms that turned large bitmap files into more nimble JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs were just a gleam in some programmers eye.

This meant that, leaving aside variations in style and formatting, these files had to condense a considerable amount of information into a very small package, both in computer terms and human terms; it might take a while to download a particularly large file from a bulletin board, which might not prove to be useful or informative or entertaining compared to multiple smaller files that could be accessed in the same time frame. In a way it presaged the push towards small-form video content in the present day, but motivated purely by cost-benefit analysis on the part of writers, readers, and hosts rather than advertising engagement; it was naturally organic, not algorithmically enforced. To a lesser extent this also impacted the specific content of the files; according to the Wadsworth Constant, the first 30% of every YouTube video can be skipped while not losing any information content, something only possible because our computing and telecommunications technology has undergone multiple revolutions in the past three decades, while our precursors didn't have the luxury of "filler" content.

While I personally believe we have gained more than we have lost through the adoption of the World Wide Web and its various protocols, and indeed I cannot see the BBS era through rose-colored glasses because I did not experience it personally, only read about it after the fact through historical and personal accounts, the topic of condensing the maximum information into the smallest possible footprint is definitely on my mind a lot these days.

[tagnoob]

The Death of eWorld

Apple’s eWorld wasn’t necessarily the worst idea they came up with in the 90s before the return of Steve Jobs.  But it was so badly executed and came at such a bad time that its demise was pretty much inevitable.  That it represented at times some of the greatest hubris a company well known for its high regard for itself has exhibited only adds some spice to the tale. The eWorld Box unfolded –…

[poetcsw]

Telecommuting: Embracing the Possibilities

Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley May 7, 2012 Deadline June 2012 Issue Telecommuting: Embracing the Possibilities My wife, Susan, works for a company located in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I work for a university located about 20 miles from Pittsburgh. For us, the promise of telecommuting has become a reality. We are able to live in the foothills we love, surrounded by trees and wildlife, working…

[amtechhive]

Qualcomm modems top iPhone 16E new 5G test with Android phones

A New cellular insight report The commission has found in the commission that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 and Snapdragon X80 modem equipped with two anonymous Android smartphone models achieved 5G speed compared to the iPhone 16E, which is armed with Custom-Diesine C1 Modem before Apple. According to cellular insight, in a variety of real-world environment, the T-6 GHz 5G network of T-Mobiles in…

[takenabackbytuesdays]

nnniing nnning nnning nneee neee neee krrkrrrkrr cshk cshk cshk EEEE eeee EEEE eeee

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

[egophiliac]

couple of extra low-quality gifs from one of my favorite '90s anime :D

just felt like messing around in this style! it's fun to get in there and just really scrunge it all up. >:D there's a lot of mistakes still, but uhhh something something it's about the ✨journey✨

[netboon]

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[pinsolpost]

Qu'est-ce qu'un modem? Types, fonctions et importance expliqués

Découvrez ce qu'est un modem, ses fonctions clés et pourquoi il est essentiel pour la connectivité Internet. Apprenez-en plus sur les différents types de modems, leur fonctionnement et des conseils pour choisir le bon pour votre maison ou bureau. Restez connecté et informé grâce à notre guide complet sur les modems.

[chris-in-eugene]

Don't forget when you had to run a phone cord from the one outlet in the house all they way to your bedroom; but you had to do it in the middle of the night or your family would trip on it and yank it out of the wall if you tried in the middle of the day.

born too soon to spend my teen years logging onto ao3 on my smartphone in the privacy of my own bedroom, born too late for mimeographed zines, born just in time to sneak into a common area of my family home at 2 am and wrap the modem in a thick blanket to muffle the screeching, so my parents wouldn’t catch me spending 18 cents a minute on long-distance rural dial-up to type my sexually confused hopes into webcrawler and lycos, praying maybe one other person on earth also liked the same character i did enough to make a web page about it. and that my connection to the information superhighway would hold out long enough to download 78 kilobytes worth of .txt files onto a floppy disk labeled “SCHOOL BACKUP” that i would guard with my life.

[tagnoob]

Tech Support at the Village

I arrived at Global Village Communication (there is no “s” at the end, which was always a point of contention, and a tidbit that will enter into a later story) in the midst of one of the crisis points in its history. The monochrome version of the original company logo I wish I could find a good version of the original color logo, but I cannot.  For later posts I will use the updated logo, which…

[sarawill586]

WifiBlvd: The Best in Wireless Tech and Crypto Trends

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[nando161mando]

Some telco provided modems & routers are absolute dog shit and its recommended to upgrade it immediately IMO.

[nixmcretro]

MiSTer ao486 Core – Dial-up Modem Testing via VoIP

First thing, I should probably note is that this was from relatively early on in my testing with VoIP back in 2021. I didn’t use anything fancy apart from the VoIP box, some phone cables and good luck. Coupled with a really great guide of course.

[scipunk]

Weird Science (1985)

[khookn]

And I wanna have fun, fun, fun!

[oldguydoesstuff]

Mine was the modem. 56k was a lie! Happy to even get 28.8k most of the time. (But over 3 miles from the CO, I guess it was to be expected)