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You used to ignore the phone to browse the internet on a computer.
Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.
Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.
I am so impressed about the people that still mainly browse the Internet using a PC... But I am more impressed that people don't have a PC in their dwelling...
Maybe it is so millennial from my part, but in the house we still have a dedicated "PC room" with a printer that the whole family uses, of course our family browsing experience was almost exclusively done from said room years ago.
I’m still waiting for IPoV but I guess no one ever invented it.
Isn't that basically just a modem?
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.
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).
If you can hum and whistle at the same time you might have a chance.
I used to know a girl who was DTF.
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.
Just gotta shout dialup noises.
I work for a mid size telco. VoIP has been the predominate method for voice communications going on 10+ years it was just behind the scenes.
Messages used to be carried by passenger pigeon. Then they didn't need them anymore and they went extinct. So either the terminator or the matrix is our future.
We do have a defined standard to send IP packets with avian carriers. It was even adapted for IPv6.
According to Wikipedia:
IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to operator error), and a response time ranging from 3,000 seconds (50 min) to over 6,000 seconds (100 min). Thus, this technology suffers from extremely high latency.
On 28 April 2001, IPoAC was implemented by the Bergen Linux user group, under the name CPIP (for Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol). They sent nine packets over a distance of approximately 5 km (3 mi), each carried by an individual pigeon and containing one ping (ICMP echo request), and received four responses.
Script started on Sat Apr 28 11:24:09 2001 $ /sbin/ifconfig tun0 tun0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.0.3.2 P-t-P:10.0.3.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:150 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:88 (88.0 b) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b) $ ping -c 9 -i 900 10.0.3.1 PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms
10.0.3.1 ping statistics
9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms Script done on Sat Apr 28 14:14:28 2001
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