Re:1964 Antique modem surfs the web
by 0xdefec8 on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @09:23PM
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I am drooling with hacker nerdocity. A beautifully organic 45 year old still-working box passed on from a protohacker connected to a defcon-stickered terminal browsing the web on a cli....I need to look away
Re:1964 Antique modem surfs the web
by GrandMasterBirt on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @09:30PM
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total nerd porn!
I am always amazed just how much shit you can do without a computer in analog. Like a 1900s record player just uses such simple techniques to play sounds, but living in the 21st century it seems almost impossible to do without a computer chip and a sound card and some software.
It's like a steampunk modem, except in earnest.
I am always amazed just how much shit you can do without a computer in analog. Like a 1900s record player just uses such simple techniques to play sounds, but living in the 21st century it seems almost impossible to do without a computer chip and a sound card and some software.
8 minutes of video to show an old acoustic coupler modem is still functional.