The Rise of the Stupid Network: a remarkable 1997 essay on what ISPs as dumb bit pipes enables, moving innovation to client devices on the internet, and avoiding the scarcity mindset from when hardware was expensive:
https://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html
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Trellis Modulation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis_modulation was a critical modem innovation: it made sending multimedia over telephone lines feasible!
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