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Dead? That's like calling a transistor a dead technology. They just mostly stopped being their own little boxes. Unless you mean dial-up modems specifically.
by hoseja 7y ago
Dead? That's like calling a transistor a dead technology. They just mostly stopped being their own little boxes. Unless you mean dial-up modems specifically.
- jacobolus 7y agoFair enough. I mean dial-up modems of the 1990s used to connect computers to the internet over the phone network by making a local telephone call. Those were the only type people in the broader public ever knew about. Otherwise, the word “modem” both before and since is just niche technical jargon, ignored by laypeople.