Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Programmer Ward Christensen writes MODEM (modulator-demodulator), allowing PCs to talk over public phone lines...
...what, you say? Everybody knows that with a mouse, a modem and access to the Internet, these days you can point-and-click anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or long-distance phone tariffs...
Along the way, vital components began to shrink: the vacuum tube became the transistor; the transistor led to the microchip; the microchip married the phone and gave birth to the modem. Soon enough, sounds, photos, movies and conversations would be ground down into the smallest components of all: 1s and 0s. Was the digital revolution inevitable? In our brave new wired world, it certainly seems that...
...phone-line networking kits this summer, but the product it is promoting now uses a traditional Ethernet connection, adapted to guarantee a 15-min. set-up time (or so the company says). Called OfficeConnect, it includes a small, flat box that serves as both the network hub and the modem or high-speed connection for accessing the Internet. Many agree with 3Com that Ethernet remains the most reliable option, particularly for small businesses and home offices with no time to be anyone's beta tester. OfficeConnect looks easy enough, but it still requires users to string new cables and install...
...designer who honed his craft in bigger cities, Middleton moved back to his native Leadville, Colo., 18 months ago, eager to trade urban pressures for the serenity of this historic mining town of 3,421. But Leadville's telephone system is quaint too, and won't let his computer modem send the digital images that are his livelihood. This regularly forces Middleton to drive two hours to Denver to deliver electronic designs for brochures and ads. "I can't compete," he laments, again facing the prospect of leaving Leadville for the city. "The phone line is too small...