Hardware Bible

That didn't stop people from trying, so in the pre-telegraph days a lot of exciting technologies promised to revolutionize communications—smoke signals, semaphore flags, and carrier pigeons were all attempts to break the bond between messenger and me...

A modem is standard equipment in every new computer—and with good reason. It's what most people use to connect to the Internet. Consider a computer without a modem, and you might as well buy a vacuum cleaner. Today's modem is a world apart from thos...

Today, all of the international telephone network is digital, with the exception of one wire—the one running from the telephone company central office to your home. This local loop, sometimes called the last mile, is the same stuff that Alexander Gra...