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by onetimeuse92304 941 days ago
We actually got a lot more. For example, we got modems and without modems it is likely we would not have Internet, at least not free version of it.
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That doesn't make much sense to me. Modems existed before the AT&T breakup. You can't encode a digital signal for transmission ever an analogue medium without a modem, and a modem seems entirely beside any point of a free internet to me.