In the dark ages, before always on high-speed broadband internet connections, people used devices like these to reach out to other machines. Of course in 1989, the year of this ad, there was no Internet to speak of. At least not one that was publicly accessible for most people. However, there were still ways to communicate with the digital world.
The above ad is from the October 1989 issue of Compute!'s Amiga Resource.
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