On 01/29/2018 01:43 PM, John Ladasky 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?
That would be a MOdulator-DEModulator device. It's what you plug your DSL phone line or cable coax into. At one time it simply plugged into a regular phone line but there aren't many of those around any more. You may be connecting directly to a provider's Wifi AP but 90% of the people still use modems. And even if you connect directly to an AP that device still needs to talk to a modem so you are still connected to a modem at some point. Modems are still around. They have simply evolved from the 300 baud acoustic coupler. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain Vybe Networks Inc. http://www.VybeNetworks.com/ IM:da...@vex.net VoIP: sip:da...@vybenetworks.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
