Today's kids don't know that, back in the 1990s, the units in apartment buildings usually had only one telephone landline socket near the entrance. Since we used our PC in a bedroom often at the opposite end of the apartment, when we needed dial-up Internet access we had to run a roll-up extension cable through most of the apartment to connect the modem in the PC room to the phone socket. Every single time.
#modem #retrocomputing
Paolo Amoroso /
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2025-03-12 12:00:40
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2025-03-12 12:00:40Event JSON
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