On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:43 PM, John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code >> out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.) > > What's a... modem?
A modem is a MOulator-DEMmodulator. The idea is to transmit a baseband signal by modulating the amplitude, frequency, or phase of a carrier signal. At the receiving end, the signal is demodulated back to baseband. It's a common technique in communication systems (e.g. DSL, cable, wireless modems -- even optical modems). In popular culture, people tend to think of telephone-system modems that were common in the 1980s and 90s. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
