Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

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    9 months ago

    That I can help. Back in the day, to access someone’s else computer you literally hooked up yours to a phone line. Your desktop would then dial to some number you got that had another computer listening to answer, and they would start a “conversation”. Your computer sent what to us would sound like noise, the receiving computer would listen to that noise and answer back. Voilá, you’re connected to a network!

    This is how it sounded like

    And here’s an explanation about what’s happening.

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      9 months ago

      It’s binary with low tones representing 0 and high tones representing 1. Thanks for the link, that’s just what I wanted to know!