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First modem I ever saw used: in a friend's computer lab at the University of Minnesota, probably around 1981, an acoustic coupler. He told me it was to send messages from one computer to another. I wondered why he didn't just pick up the phone and talk to whoever it was he was sending the message to.
First modem I ever personally used: in school, a 2400 baud, attached to an Apple II+, I want to say maybe 1983 or '84.... Sent a "computer message" to a guy at U of M. My best friend then used the modem to "electronically record" a videogame...onto a cassette tape drive!
First modem I ever owned: way later. 1992. Junior year of college. 14.4K fax modem. I thought it was hot shit. At first, I used it to send e-mails, and to play online text-based role-playing games, via the college internet server. Then, about a year and a half later, someone told me about this thing called the "World Wide Web," and how you could get free porn on your computer there.....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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