The kid was blown away by the modem. For those who don’t know it’s a cradle type dial up modem where you place the (land line) phone on a receiver instead of plugging the computer into the cat4. You could get up to 150 bits per second on one of those bad boys.
That’s about the speed you can read text…it’s why pre-internet sites like BBSes weren’t all flashy, you had to keep it loadable. Actual downloads you would plan overnight and hope you didn’t lose connection. The first big breakthrough was resumable downloading where you left off. Huge.
That movie is WarGames (1983)
The kid was blown away by the modem. For those who don’t know it’s a cradle type dial up modem where you place the (land line) phone on a receiver instead of plugging the computer into the cat4. You could get up to 150 bits per second on one of those bad boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
That’s about the speed you can read text…it’s why pre-internet sites like BBSes weren’t all flashy, you had to keep it loadable. Actual downloads you would plan overnight and hope you didn’t lose connection. The first big breakthrough was resumable downloading where you left off. Huge.
You misspelled “RJ11”
phreakmonkey connects to Wikipedia with a 1964 Livermore Labs acoustic modem
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Oh God am I old now? I never had to use one but know of their existence from said movie.
No, that makes you young
Whew that was close
I’ve not seen some of these words in decades.
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The picture is LotR, yes. But the text underneath refers to WarGames.