modem
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June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Designed to keep desktop PCs going briefly after an outage occurs, these extra-chunky power strips can keep a modem running for hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
The chip maker produces modem systems for iPhones, and Apple is now producing its own modems, with more advanced systems potentially on the way.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
A BBS was hosted on a personal computer, and other computers could dial in to the BBS using a modem and a terminal software program, allowing users to exchange messages, documents and software.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
Perhaps he was tired of the struggle, tired of the Orkney clique and the strange new fashions and the difficulties of love and modem justice.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
But Apple has been weaning itself off Qualcomm, replacing it with its homegrown modems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
From what I saw, I’m convinced agentic and AI browsers are the future, but the current iteration feels a bit like when I first tried America Online to use the internet over dial-up modems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
That, plus subsequent cases, eventually would help popularize the internet — jacking early modems into the telephone system — and the legal breakup of the AT&T/Bell monopoly.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Some AT hikers, I had read, now carry laptop computers and modems, so that they can file daily reports to their family and friends.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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