modem

At first, still thinking of ourselves as making a magazine, we uploaded full “issues” of a dozen or so stories over the office modem on Friday nights.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 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

Apple’s in-house modem production and an expected 8% decline in its smartphone sales in 2026 pose risks to Qualcomm.

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

The desk now held a second-hand computer, with the phone line for the modem stapled along the floor to the nearest phone jack.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Cars were coming along with more computers and modems, and controlled by software that could be updated over the air.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026

Later, I worked on modems at Bell Labs, funded by a government-mandated monopoly’s profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

The dial-up modems screamed at anyone who wanted to surf the net, but surfing was more like sitting in the water with some floaties and a pool noodle compared to today’s internet.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker