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Originally Posted by bash
The "access anywhere in the world" is just describing a dial-up modem. Modems were pretty amazing despite their downsides. You could make a phone call, even with an acoustic coupler on a pay phone, and connect to other systems hooked to phone lines and communicate digitally.
The ~24 year projection in Dark Conspiracy was positing that phone connectivity and thus the reach of modems would increase, not envisioning dedicated IP data networks. DC was released even before consumer access to the Internet was even a thing.
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Good points. I remember even in the 1970's and before, you could buy cups to put on the phone receiver and hook it to you modem's acoustic coupler. Dark Conspiracy it basically the tech level of 1990's taken to a higher limit.