For anyone who experienced it, the screeching hiss of a modem handshaking over copper phone wires is unforgettable. The technology may have tied up the family phone line, but modems were the gateways ...

45 years after it was first created, Livermore Data Systems’ “Model A” Acoustic Coupler Modem finally gets hooked up to the Internet, and travels to the World Wide Web at a whopping 300 baud. The slow ...

Wow, so much nostalgia, thanks for that! My first modem experience was a standalone terminal with a thermal printer and phone coupler sometime in the early 80s. I have no idea where my dad got it.

DARPA: Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem Building a high-speed brain-to-computer interface that would ...