Modems! Those magical things that screech over long distances!

[XerShadowTail]

Does anyone have any modems to share?

This is a video I recorded a few years back on an iBook G4 connecting over dial-up, very retro!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jbH1ZGBvzuDRDtmf8

Gosh, this was a sound I heard all too often just to get online. Times definitely have changed since.

[Enbyeon]

When I got my first PC, we were still on dial-up, but the modems at that point were internal cards.

We did lose our first modem to a thunderstorm as kids. We unplugged the PC during it, but not the phone line and an electric surge melted our modem.

[linuxavali]

I think by the time I was old enough to use the computer myself, my mother had switched us over to DSL, which would have been in the early 2000s. I do have a fascination for the technology in a anemoia sense. I have played around with setting up a computer to computer link with some old modems which was an interesting experience.

[XerShadowTail]

We did lose our first modem to a thunderstorm as kids. We unplugged the PC during it, but not the phone line and an electric surge melted our modem.

Wow, that is really unfortunate.

I think by the time I was old enough to use the computer myself, my mother had switched us over to DSL, which would have been in the early 2000s. I do have a fascination for the technology in a anemoia sense. I have played around with setting up a computer to computer link with some old modems which was an interesting experience.

Oh? Which kind of setup did you have for playing around?

[Beancatte]

Dang i ALSO screech across long distances.

Modems are a LITTLE before my time and there's only a vague window of time from which I remember them. This however is still enough to kinda make me wanna mess around with a couple of the modern instances of them that are still kicking around somehow. Have NO idea how well UK infrastructure would even handle that though

[XerShadowTail]

Dang i ALSO screech across long distances.

Modems are a LITTLE before my time and there's only a vague window of time from which I remember them. This however is still enough to kinda make me wanna mess around with a couple of the modern instances of them that are still kicking around somehow. Have NO idea how well UK infrastructure would even handle that though

Do not know how the UK does it, but there are POTS Simulators you can buy and setup to connect to another system connectee to the same simulator. This would remove the need for an actual phone service and is how I do modem stuff these days, so everything is entirely local! Can even send faxes to a connectee fax machine!