Nowadays most folk seem to access the Web through their smartphones. It does not seem so long ago that we switched to connecting via a router plugged in to the terrestrial telephone network (as I still do). This is now robust enough for me to throw out some old friends: a modem powered from the mains (who remembers the days of 75baud up and 1200 down which was BT's initial offering to the public?), and its first replacement, a modem card (on the left). Note the nominally 25-pin connection via serial cable on the right. USB saved a lot of messing about.
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