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1964 Antique modem surfs the web
- brk 17y agoHoly crap it takes that guy forever to get to the point. 8 minutes of video to show an old acoustic coupler modem is still functional.
- spolsky 17y agojeez you kids these days with your 1200 baud modems have no patience
- behe101 17y agowhy back in my day we had 200 baud modems and we were happy with that, not this fancy shmancy advanced megalobits nonsense with your "streaming video" and your "bit torrents" kids these days have it too good.
- 0xdefec8 17y agoI am drooling with hacker nerdocity. A beautifully organic 45 year old still-working box passed on from a protohacker connected to a defcon-stickered terminal browsing the web on a cli....I need to look away
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agototal nerd porn! I am always amazed just how much shit you can do without a computer in analog. Like a 1900s record player just uses such simple techniques to play sounds, but living in the 21st century it seems almost impossible to do without a computer chip and a sound card and some software.
- lsb 17y agoWooden box, piano hinge, dovetailed joints, tasteful incisions in the front, discreet plugs on the side. It's like a steampunk modem, except in earnest.