Back when I was not even 5 years old, the only way to connect to the Internet was via modem. And if you remember all the way back, the modem was far from silent like today’s routers.

I always wondered what number the modem dials at the beginning. Doesn’t it sound like a telephone number?

Anyways, you can thank me later.

Published by Geoffrey Liu

A software engineer by trade and a classical musician at heart. Currently a software engineer at Groupon getting into iOS mobile development. Recently graduated from the University of Washington, with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Music. Web development has been my passion for many years. I am also greatly interested in UI/UX design, teaching, cooking, biking, and collecting posters.

4 thoughts on “The good old days of the Modem

      • It would depend on your ISP and the area you lived in. It was usually a local number (as dialing a long distance number would be quite costly!). Your ISP would give you the phone number to enter into your modem settings, or in the case of ISP’s who gave you an “installation disk” it would configure the settings for you automatically. Your computer would dial in to your ISP’s bank of modems, and your journey would begin.

        • I believe Geoffrey means to ask “Which phone number is being dialed in the embedded video?” The answer is 1-570-234-0003.

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