modem
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On the variable cost side of the coin, spending on graphics processing units and data centers, as well as massive electricity bills, are sending tech companies’ capital-light models the way of the dial-up modem.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Also, it’s easy to forget that your Wi-Fi router is plugged into a modem, usually in some far corner of the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Designed to keep desktop PCs going briefly after an outage occurs, these extra-chunky power strips can keep a modem running for hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Meanwhile, Reitzes said that Qualcomm’s stock multiple has been negatively impacted by concerns over the loss of its modem business with Apple.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
My modem was sadly outdated, my free service substandard; just dialing up took so long that I decided to go get myself a bowl of cereal while I waited.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
But Apple has been weaning itself off Qualcomm, replacing it with its homegrown modems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
From what I saw, I’m convinced agentic and AI browsers are the future, but the current iteration feels a bit like when I first tried America Online to use the internet over dial-up modems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
The dial-up modems screamed at anyone who wanted to surf the net, but surfing was more like sitting in the water with some floaties and a pool noodle compared to today’s internet.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023
Meanwhile, downloading software and MP3s was sometimes agonizingly slow; even worse, they’d gotten their butts kicked when they went online to play Quake or Half-Life against geeks who did have cable modems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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