How Local Phone Lines Carried Kirksville Onto the Internet

Dial-up Internet used ordinary telephone loops to place modem calls to an ISP, while later DSL reused copper differently and could support higher-speed data without acting like a normal voice call.

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Originally published 2026-06-29

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