I got a boner for acoustic modems and related tech. It's

Enjoy!

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>>58523487
>It's a shame almost nobody uses it anymore.

>A. They're slow as fuck.
>B. No one has land line phones now.
>C. You can get wired broadband connections that do a million things better.


Real shame.

>>58523579
Yea but theres something cool and mysterious as fuck about exchanging data via channels meant for audio.
Telecommunication today is so easy and fast it's boring.

>>58523742
Have you considered semaphore?
Or TTY?
Morse still works, if you want real retro.

>>58523579
>a they're slow as fuck
Honestly i wonder how much further newer tech would have gotten us in that aspect.

>>58523742
Not only that but people allow for inefficencies because faster things so it's all good

I'm not saying have a BBS instead of a website. i'm just saying 700 js files and 1000 http calls doesn't really speak web 2.0 it speaks a web that wishes for death because we've shoehorned things browsers should never do in to browsers

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>>58523487
Cool! I still have my US Robotics 14.4K external and it still works. Back in the day, I was the author of several BBS systems. Nice find, I'm a little jealous.