The correct answer is a little strange.
The first pictures were what we now call faxes and were transmitted over telegraph wires before the invention of the phone.
This was in 1843
the same year your mom was born..
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fax machine ;)
A keyboard entry to generate codes in response to an operator's key selections. The code is transmitted to voice telephone lines through an acoustic coupler with a telephone receiver cradled thereon.
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modemmo-dem =MOdulatorDEModulator
A modem (short for MOdulator DEModulator). It converts data into a stream of tones which can be transmitted over telephone lines. Sounds similar to a fax machine, if you've heard one.
Actually you have this backwards, the telephone lines can only carry analogue signals (voice band, 20Hz to 3KHz) not digital signals.The device that converts digital signals to analogue signals for transmission over telephone lines is called a phone MoDem(this stands for phone modulator demodulator). At the opposite end of the line it of course converts the telephone analogue signals back to digital signals.
these are intersecting lines.
boring
no not at all
Communication channels.
One may purchase two telephone lines from most telephone providers. Traditional telephone service providers will require you to install another stand alone telephone line, whether this be a private or a business line. For fiber lines the options are more complicated and involve using existing fiber telephone lines and a splitter. If it is simply an additional telephone number one needs, then most telephone service providers are happy to provide an extra number and the first extra number may be free of charge on private lines.
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