A device that sends digital data over telephone lines by converting it to sound and back. It connected early home computers to bulletin boards and the internet.
So I got a teletype and a modem and worked from my home at CalArts. The teletype was text-only. So I was trying to debug my graphics programs from a text-only machine.
Larry Cuba, Larry Cuba on Choreographing Form
With quantum networks, which are still in their early baby shoes, it's the same. You have the scientists plus military, government and educational interests. It's at the phase where it's still very local. It feels like dialup with a local modem.
Joan Heemskerk, Joan Heemskerk on Quantum Web4