Word: modems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...INTERRUPT THIS CALL...Ever miss a call because you were online and didn't have a separate telephone line? With Actiontec's new 56K Call Waiting Modem ($130), you'll never miss a call again. The phone actually rings while you're surfing away. If you choose to answer, you have seven seconds to take a message and get back to your e-mail. But what if the call is from a cute guy asking you out for a date? Then keep talking, and let the modem silently disconnect your online session. Phew...
Dreamcast is Sega's bid to work its way back into the console market. Its previous offering, the ill-fated Saturn, was too pricey and offered too few games. Learning from its mistakes, Sega is launching Dreamcast in September for $199, with a built-in 56K modem for online game play and at least 20 titles to start wrestling with...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. [*] 1915-1944 The family's first great hope became its first modem martyr. His plane exploded on a WWII bombing...
History 1319--Mind and Money: Culture and the Marketplace from Renaissance to Modem...
...pitch: capitalism thrives on the reduction of friction, and the Web is the most effective friction reducer since the assembly line. The dot-com revolution hit first for consumers; as soon as Amazon, for instance, put millions of discount books within buying reach of anyone with a modem and a credit card, ordinary bookstores had to change or die. "E-markets have had a very significant impact," says Tim Minahan, an e-commerce analyst for the Aberdeen Group. "And you're going to see that on the business side as well...