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  2. Cidco MailStation - Wikipedia

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    Cidco MailStation. The CIDCo MailStation was a portable e-mail terminal first introduced by CIDCO Inc in 1999 at Amazon.com and was marketed as the Mivo 100 by EarthLink. The MailStation is no longer sold by either EarthLink or Amazon. The MailStation was designed to send and receive e-mails via a standard POTS telephone line.

  3. Dial-up Internet access - Wikipedia

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    An example handshake of a dial-up modem. Modern dial-up modems typically have a maximum theoretical transfer speed of 56 kbit/s (using the V.90 or V.92 protocol), although in most cases, 40–50 kbit/s is the norm. Factors such as phone line noise as well as the quality of the modem itself play a large part in determining connection speeds.

  4. EarthLink - Wikipedia

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    www.earthlink.net. EarthLink is an American Internet service provider. [1] Earthlink went public on NASDAQ in January 1997. Much of the company's growth was via acquisition; by 2000, The New York Times described Earthlink as the "second largest Internet service provider after America Online ."

  5. Private network - Wikipedia

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    The implementation of these link-local addresses is mandatory, as various functions of the IPv6 protocol depend on them. Loopback interface. A special case of private link-local addresses is the loopback interface. These addresses are private and link-local by definition, since packets never leave the host device.

  6. Internal and external links - Wikipedia

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    Internal and external links. An is a type of hyperlink on a web page to another page or resource, such as an image or document, on the same website or domain. [1] [2] It is the opposite of an , a link that directs a user to content that is outside its domain. Hyperlinks are considered either "external" or "internal" depending on their target or ...

  7. Hayes Microcomputer Products - Wikipedia

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    Hayes Microcomputer Products was a U.S.-based manufacturer of modems.The company is known for the Smartmodem, which introduced a control language for operating the functions of the modem via the serial interface, in contrast to manual operation with front-panel switches.

  8. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

  9. 5G - Wikipedia

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    An Android phone, showing that it is connected to a 5G network. In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones.