Modem History: the Beginning to the Current Modem

At first, the process of change in technology is strongly influenced by the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century until the beginning of the 19th century. The process of replacing the human work by machines turned out by the gradual spread globally through the invasion by European nations in all corners of the world.

Look at history, if the industrial revolution began the spirit of the industrialization in the technology sector and economy, then the field of communications and computers can be said to be present as one of the reasons for creating auxiliary engines of war, the initial generation of the phone as a commercial communication tool is used as a tool of war to improve the quality of radar and target shooting. While early generations of computers used to design airplanes and missiles. Several centuries later both technologies are finding the same point, namely a set of communication technology equipment.

Modem is one tool that has been used a lot of peoples right now. Modem comes from the word of Modulator Demodulator, which means two-way communication tool. Modulator is a device converting the information signal to the carrier signal to be sent. While Demodulator separating the signals from the carrier signal. The need for communication and information access are rapidly making its users more massive use of these tools.

In 1940 the U.S. military requires a tool to transmit hundreds of radar images to give orders in the middle of the cold war. The solution they use the telephone system and use a teletype modem for sending the pictures.

Historically, 1943 is the birth year of modem. Unlike existing modems at the moment, modem born of the need for connection from teletype machine to regular telephone that was previously used by teleprinter machines and automatic telegraph. In 1943, IBM is adapting this technology to their recording equipment and is able to transmit punched card or a card-shaped data storage media. After the development process that lasted from 1943 until 1948, then was born the first teletype modem.

Along with the development of computers and communication devices, in 1958 AT & T international companies in the telecommunications sector has developed the first commercial production of a computer modem is referred to as Digital Subset. The company was inspired by the data transmission technology used in the cold war a decade earlier. This modem can communicate with a speed of 110 bits per second. When compared with today's modern website that the average can be accessed with a speed of 500 kb, this would take up to 15 hours to fully load. Even to send a short e-mail, with this speed will spend about 20 minutes.

History of modem was recorded and continue to increase. In 1962 the AT & T company back to the innovation of its communications equipment with the launch of Bell 103 Data Phone. The device has a better standard speed of 300 bits per second. This tool allows users to send digital data over telephone lines and radio frequencies to write it in code. Until now, the technology of the Bell 103 is still used by radio service providers with a low wave, amateur radio and some commercial applications.

In 1977, Steve Jobs and other Apple company founder released the Hayes modem 80-130A along with the Apple II. In that year, Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington managed to make the world's first PC modem called Hayes 80-103A used by Apple. At that time the modem is very famous in the United States because of its ability to connect many peoples A previously unthinkable things. Heatherington and Hayes continue to make technological innovations on these findings. In 1981 they re-introduce a tool named Hayes Smartmodem. This tool allows users to manually connect the phone number and connect the modem when they got the answer. This basic commands which are the basis of computer control of most of the modem to date. Smartmodem also able to deliver speeds up to 1.2 kbps and is a major step forward in the internet speed at the time.

Advancement of modem devices also increase the speed of internet access at the time. Both of these can not be separated until now. In the mid of 80s, the IBM PC company dominated the PC market with the introduction of a modem card that can be used on the PC. This card comes with speeds of up to 2.4 kbps. This technology speeds continue to increase every year up to 28.8 kbps. In the decade of the 80s conducted massive commercialization of the modem. IBM ISA modem output with only 2.4 kbps rate is pegged at $ 1000. While in the mid of 90's decade IBM modem has transformed into an attractive commodity to be marketed as a standard component of the PC and laptop. In this era, emails started its popularity, and most of the modem can send emails on average only 3 up to 4 seconds.

A decade after IBM PC modem history, Brent Townsend comes with a 56K modem technology that was introduced to the market with a ratio of 56.0 kbps and a more friendly price. Get into the 21st century, the long journey of modem is constantly increasing. With the resulting limitations of analog technology, many companies are trying new approaches to achieve the maximum modem speed. The first is the presence of ISDN modem at the beginning of the 2000s who worked through TV cable. Apparently a lot of phone companies envision the process of sending digital data to be more economical over the ADSL connection and eventually become the common choice of the consumers. Afterwards, many other technologies born as wireless networks, 3G technologies (2002), and 4G networks to date are related to each other and also affected the long journey from the modem.