Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet.

Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that basically just a modem?

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well my first modem was. It was very slow and you used it by dialing the phone yourself and placing the receiver on the modem. This is called an acoustic coupler.

    Later modems changed this by connecting directly to the outlet. This allowed for digital signals to be sent directly over the copper wires. This allows for much more bandwidth compared to just bleeping and blooping using audio. There were also in between variants which still used pure audio signals, but still connected directly to the outlet to improve signal quality.

    My computer back then also had a tape deck and I would record data using the tape deck. This was also a pure audio based signal. So in theory you could use a regular old tape deck with regular old tapes. However I had a specialized tape deck, specifically made for the computer and special “data” tapes. Not sure if they actually worked better, but I had them so I used them.

    Yes both my back and knees hurt.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Technically not a voice. It was using a speaker to create sounds a human voice system cannot. Maybe a well-trained human could do DTMF but I think it would take two (DT stands for dual-tone).

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each…

        Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using “voice” to convey data.

        Technically, they weren’t using “Internet Protocol” over that voice link.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I used to know a girl who was DTF.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Modem sounds are not a voice. I wonder how efficient digital communication over sounds that can be made with the human vocal system could get, and what it would sound like.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each…

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• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just gotta shout dialup noises.

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.

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• not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Flight of the Conchords already did it. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one.

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