Jimmy Hoke on Nostr: So I get why dialup modems sent tones through the telephone line, but why did they ...
So I get why dialup modems sent tones through the telephone line, but why did they have to have a speaker too? Whose idea was it that customers would want to hear indecipherable screeching the whole time they used the internet?
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