The American synth-pop band Information Society featured a track entitled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" on their album Peace and Love, Inc. that could be decoded to a text message by holding a phone handset connected to a Bell 103 modem up to the speaker playing the track.

When decoded, the content is a tale by Kurt Harland about a bizarre but purportedly true event that took place when the band was playing in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.

#Bell103 #Modems

Dear Friends who can still not touch #type let alone thumb type or #spell properly or prettily, without help,

Yes ye olde #dinosaurs, we have managed to:

- Change and use varied Operating Systems
- #Techno inhabit the cyber super-highways
- #Rebelled against the money #monstrosities
- Used modern #modems (when they were)
- Worked in the silence of the night
- Gone to #free computer shows
- Bought #floppies in bulk

Now we are coming to warn you that
the space rocks are not your friends.
The mega #monster corps are trying
to eat your #brains

What can you do against this do-do?
1) #Develop #independent and #critical
capacity from the phone zombie infestation
2) #Enrich your life not you #dependence
3) Find lateral, #tangent and diverse friendship

You are the #meek not the market and this is your #inheritance

https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/streamtuner2

Voice Modems

https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html

#HackerNews #Tech #Modems

Hardware I returned to Xfinity this afternoon. The Arris telephony modem was about 20 years old. The cable box / DVT was not much younger.

We dropped cable TV, VOIP, and stopped renting modems (bought my own Arris S33v3) very recently, saving hundreds of dollars per month on the bill.

#Xfinity #cable #cabletv #vintage #networking #vintagehardware #docsis #telephony #modem #modems

YouTuber Streams Video Via 12 56K Dial-Up Modems #56kmodem #hardware #modems #randomasitgets

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/367688/youtuber-56k-modem-streaming/