Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HomeLink allows you to use a modem to connect to BankBoston's encrypted dial-up system. (You can't access HomeLink over the Internet, yet.) Enter your PIN code, and you're ready...
...staff and Faculty can get SLIP connections to Harvard from home. Harvard undergrads living on campus cannot sign up for SLIP connections, which allow students to browse the Web using a modem, from their dorm or their summer residence...
...works by connecting to a constantly maintained software database, automatically updating your PC with the latest versions and patches. The program indexes all the software you have on your hard disk and then scouts out the latest updates across the Internet; new versions of computer programs arrive over your modem and self-install. It doesn't get easier than that...
...better wire them up quickly. The telephone companies, eyeing the same potential subscribers, have begun introducing their own high-speed services, including ISDN (integrated-services digital network), which offers four times the bandwidth of a standard modem, and ADSL (assymetrical digital-subscriber line), which approaches cable speed. And the telcos are good at running the complex switching and billing systems required to bring the Net to millions of customers...
...only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...