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jan 23, 1949 - Birth of the Modem

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The Modem was developed by Jack Harrington's group at the Air Force Cambridge Research Centre. It was developed for transmitting radar signals. The name Modem comes from how it MODulates digital data into sounds and DEModulates received sounds into digital data.

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jan 23, 1949
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~ 77 years ago
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