Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. DNP This is the Modem World The great computer cold war of 1982 ...

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A developer, stuck working on an airgapped computer, developed a virtual modem for connecting to the internet using HTML5 audio.

A modem and router work in tandem to deliver you an internet connection and then grant access to your various devices.

If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...