NETWORKS OF THE PAST

We’ve been shunting data around networks for a long time, here’s how

1 MODEMS These analogue modems hooked up to your telephone line, stopped anyone else using it and ran up your bill. Still, great days… 2 COAXIAL CABLE A line up the middle is surrounded by a layer of shielding – or more than one, in the case of this co-axial undersea cable from 1956. 3 TWISTED PAIR Inside your Ethernet cables are wires like this, arranged in twisted pairs to decrease crosstalk from the unshielded wires. 4 FIBRE OPTICS Optical cables transfer info at the speed of light in glass, up to 200,000km/s. Multiple lines are often bundled together in the same cable.…

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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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