Collaborate Disseminate
Who doesn’t like dial-up internet? Even if those who survived the dial-up years are happy to be on broadband, and those who are still on dial-up wish that they weren’t, …read more Continue reading Dial-up Internet Using the Viking DLE-200B Telephone Line Simulator
Sometimes, hardware projects get cancelled before they have a chance to make an impact, often due to politics or poor economic judgment. The Tsushin Booster for the PC Engine is …read more Continue reading The Tsushin Booster – A PC Engine Modem Add-on With a Twist
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but that hasn’t stopped there being a lively hacking scene in …read more Continue reading A Brand New USB Modem In The 2020s
Imagine if, somehow, telephones of all kinds had not been invented. Then, this morning, someone entered a big corporation board room and said, “We’d like to string copper wire to …read more Continue reading The End of Landlines?
There’s an old adage about waiting hours for a bus only for two to appear at once, and for Hackaday this month we’re pleased to have seen this in a …read more Continue reading A Crossbar Telephone Switch Explained
Such has been the success of the mobile phone that in many places they have removed the need for wired connections, for example where this is being written the old …read more Continue reading A Complete Exchange From Scratch For Your Rotary Dial Phones
For those of us off the Atlantic coast of Europe it’s a frigid winter as our isles are lashed by continuous storms. Summer seems a very long time ago, and …read more Continue reading POTS at a Hacker Camp
The 20th century saw everything from telephones to computers become mainstream. Many of these devices were beautifully designed in the mid-century period, something that’s hard to say about a lot …read more Continue reading Old Czech Telephone Teardown Is Beautiful Purposeful Art
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while we stumble upon someone who has taken obsolete but really cool phone-switching equipment and built a private switched telephone in …read more Continue reading Homebrew Telephone Exchange Keeps the Family in Touch, in the House and Beyond
… this doesn’t happen when I make local calls, but when I call numbers internationally I get different types of robocall like answers in different languages, and sometimes ads, I think, mainly in Arabic and I don’t even speak the languag… Continue reading When making international calls someone else answers in a language I don’t understand [closed]