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by gnosis 5477 days ago
"The origination of the Internet itself, the book explains, is a direct result of the splitting of AT&T in 1984, which allowed, for example the standard modem jack to exist (jacks and equipment were proprietary before that)"

The earliest modems didn't use phone jacks at all:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Acoustic_coup...