Circa 1981. High tech in business at the time. Forced phone lines to clean up interference and line noise.
14.4 by 1983 the RS2732 showed up and I helped configure P2P by phone in 1984. Successful file sent from Casper to SLC. No, I didn’t have to report it to Al Gore.
I was mainly using those 14.4 modems to remote access building automation systems. Downloading software changes took a while if you had to do the whole data base. Worked fine for that for years. It was ok for the web, which was new to me. I was using that when I found FR through a Drudge link. That ay be the last time I looked at drudge.