I just got back upstairs from my neighbors house. He was having trouble connecting up to the Internet with his modem. Whenever he does he gets a crackling noise that comes over the speaker. Plus it ...

Like a lot of Arsians, I hook up to the internet with broadband, and relegate my Mac's modem for the occasional faxing job. Since I don't fax too much, I'm content to use Jaguar's built-in bare-bones ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...