Word: modems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Case's own tastes were going digital. He bought a Kaypro, a clunky home computer connected to a snail-paced modem. Even for a hobbyist, the machine was a nightmare--hard to set up, impossible to maintain, boring to use. But the modem was a revelation. As he connected to early online services such as CompuServe and the Source, Case felt the electronic rapture that would one day seduce millions of AOL users: "There was something magical about the notion of sitting in Wichita and talking to the world...
...Want more bandwidth? You'll be able to get it soon, if you happen to have a spare $50 million. The federal government is financing university research into a new Internet technology called the gigapop, that will connect at a screaming speed ? 1 million times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop could...
...whether you look up stock quotes (though we draw the line at capturing the symbols of the specific stocks you follow). If you come to the Netly News, we'll record your interest in technology. Then, the next time you visit, we might serve up an ad for a modem or an online brokerage firm or a restaurant in Akron, Ohio, depending on what we've managed to glean about...
...lets anyone with a computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor. Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy...
Your illustration of the Mars Sojourner vehicle, "Bargain-Basement Rover" [SPACE, July 14], included a description I got a kick out of. You noted that the vehicle's radio modem "sends signals only at a sluggish 9,600 bits per sec." I was working at the Space Technology Labs in 1957, when we sent our first satellite to the moon. With a 5W transmitter, we were able to receive data at only 1 bit per sec. by the time we got to the moon. The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them...