modem

June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

For Comcast customers who lease an Advanced Xfinity Gateway modem, there’s an integrated Wi-Fi motion sensor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Mizuho estimated that Apple accounted for $8.8 billion worth of business for Qualcomm in fiscal 2025, and the loss of modem share could put roughly $3 billion at risk.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

A BBS was hosted on a personal computer, and other computers could dial in to the BBS using a modem and a terminal software program, allowing users to exchange messages, documents and software.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025

Thanks to my computer and modem I was getting exclusive tracks few people had access to, but that created a problem for me.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Cars were coming along with more computers and modems, and controlled by software that could be updated over the air.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026

Later, I worked on modems at Bell Labs, funded by a government-mandated monopoly’s profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker