modem

July 4th, 2012 | 258 Entries

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258 Entries for “modem”

  1. the modem beeps, sighing.
    another day. it sends the signals back and forth.
    just so you can have your precious internet.
    it’s underappreciated.
    it hates how you don’t love it.
    sigh.
    why can’t you love it?

    by AnnaStella on 07.04.2012
  2. I really don’t know what a modem is. I’ll make something up.
    It looks like Demon if you switch one of the m’s to and n. Wow. Lovely mind I have.

  3. i hardly know what one is. computer related i’m sure. sixty seconds is longer than i anticipated. i like the symmetry of the word, if that’s of any interest?

    by letty on 07.04.2012
  4. computer. if they have a mind of their own, we’re screwed, but does the modem have much to do with that? nope, still it would be an issue. Feeding info into something that could be smarter than people is an issue. I don’t want that to happen.

    by Leah on 07.04.2012
  5. Why do I keep getting the same word I don’t even know what modem means? What is wrong with the world. Here’s it goes… Modem is a country in the southern hemisphere with a population of twenty and ten of the population are cows.

    by Matisse Perkins on 07.04.2012
  6. It sat next to my feet on the dirty kitchen floor, and when I looked down at its place I saw hairs and dirt and stains from food even though nobody was supposed to eat around the printer. I always wanted to kick that damn modem when it was at that place next to my foot, smash it with my toes against the wall. Watch the gears and wires tumble out onto the floor. Make my dad angrier than he had ever been and revel in the fact that he felt anything at all towards me. I never had the guts.

  7. “Reset the modem!” I scream as the power flickers off and my internet stops feeding life into my veins.

    In a few moments, it flickers back on, and I breathe again, as I’m safe.

  8. After reading today’s word I looked it up on my dictionary app just to make sure what it meant…I have total writers block today.

  9. I Am
    So Ashamed of My Generation,
    The World as it is Today,
    With the Scantily-Clad Girls,
    And Boys With Searching Eyes,
    And People That
    Don’t Care…

  10. modem helps the world stay connected on the internet. when i lived at home we had a start up modem and the sound it made still brings backl strong memories of my then boyfriend. it was an exciting time and i relive those moments at the sound of a connecting modem.

    now with broadband i wonder if modems are still relevant or is a modem present in a broadband system. not sure… dunno.

    without a modem, the millennium bug scare will not exist.

    by Fatima Jobe on 07.04.2012
  11. the connection was dropped from the modem of life
    they reset the router and the soul was transferred back into the body
    a mistake was made
    who is this new flesh?

    who?

    by jon on 07.04.2012
  12. “Reset the modem!” I scream as the power flickers off and my internet stops feeding life into my vains.

    In a few moments, it flickers back on, and I breathe again, as I’m safe.

    by Equals Dee on 07.04.2012
  13. I miss the slow internet modem i used to have that makes weird but cute telephone dialing sounds when I try to get on the internet. Ping! Ping!

    by Santa on 07.04.2012
  14. Get mailed failed, Annie sighed, was it the modem again? she wondered.

    In the kitchen she switched on the kettle, it was then she saw a shadow fly past the window. She threw open the door and looked out. The Telephone wires had been cut. Her heart banged as a surge of panic swept through her. She turned to go back inside, when a hand covered her mouth and another grasped her around the waist….

    by Helen on 07.04.2012
  15. the modem was a word that was so random that she couldn’t even remember what it meant as it left his mouth. That mouth that she couldn’t stop staring at, which was just below his elegantly shaped nose.

    by on 07.04.2012
  16. An ordinary looking box, but inside lie electric zings- bouncing off each other like a rubber ball on the ground. Invisible waves, traveling, moving, that fast, so fast you can’t see it. Just a click and a blink, and a thousand invisible whirrs … you’re there.

  17. i don’t know too much about a modem. i know that is related to the internet, and there is this case where all the wires go, and i can use the internet with its help. i don’t know anything else because i don’t really understand how this kind of stuff works. But it’s necessary for me.

    by Nicula Andra on 07.04.2012
  18. The reason why

  19. Oh. These things are weird and complicated and have flashing lights on them when they are on. I don’t particularly enjoy anything technology-related.

  20. ok

  21. link link link slow link link link . . . . . . .dropped link . . . . . . . . . redialing ………….. link link link …..burp ^^^^^ Ooops! …… redialing!

    by Quinn on 07.04.2012
  22. The modem wasn’t working again. The cable guy was supposed to be coming, but I couldn’t help trying to figure out what the problem was myself.

  23. Modem had meaning before internet hook-up came to every home. I wonder what it was. When I hear the word, all I think of is the scratchy, squealy sound of , a dial-up connection, and the frustration of unsuccessful attempts to connect.

    by Margaret on 07.04.2012
  24. The place where one refers to. often using the technology of today. For i do not know enough about modems to write a sub sequential paragraph.

    by Gabby on 07.04.2012
  25. connectivity, beep beeep, internet,

    by Stew on 07.04.2012
  26. It’s become easier and easier to send and receive information in the past decade. The thing that we have to remember is to make the information worthwhile. Twitter and facebook are powerful resources and can be used to benefit society. But we have to use them responsibly.

    by Alice on 07.04.2012
  27. Is it tragic that I don’t know much about what this is? Here I am thinking that I’m a decently intelligent female human being, when along comes a word like “modem” that turns simplicity into complexity. Am I enforcing gender stereotypes by not knowing much about the modem? Am I so lost in my own imagination that I can’t open my eyes and figure out what technology is in front of me?

    by Emily on 07.04.2012
  28. One day, i was trying to do some online research for a serious mid term project, and my modem all of a sudden burst into flames. I somehow had to explain to my professor why I couldn’t had the project in on time. It was awful. He of course didn’t believe me.

    by Abbie on 07.04.2012
  29. Modem, uhhhhh…. I don’t really know what that is. Does it have to do with computers? I think it does… Maybe not. Oh wow that timer filled up fast. Modem. Modem. Modem. That beautiful modem.

    by Peyton on 07.04.2012
  30. The inventor shrunk backwards from the smoking wires and felt a sob rise in his throat.

    She broke.

  31. Twisted and tepid
    The spiral inners played out
    The whispered laughter of the guilty
    Leaving nothing but the chasm
    complicit with gravity
    Of the fall of things

    by gskgsk on 07.04.2012
  32. Modem

    First thing that came to mind was “Robot Daycare.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Qc_nmSUGQ

    Second thing is the customer service call I made once about a new modem I’d bought that wasn’t working. Previously, I’d always had built in modems. I’d never had a stand alone one before. Tech support and I troubleshot it for over an hour before I noticed the stupid thing had a POWER button. – Yeah that’s right. I hadn’t turned it on. And tech support never asked if I had!

    by Noisy Quiet on 07.04.2012
  33. idk what this word means, i think its something in a computer

    now idk what to do for the rest of the 60 seconds meow. yeaaaaaaa :P

    by aliten on 07.04.2012
  34. A modem has to do with the computer, but I’m not exactly sure what it is. It begins and ends with the letter m though. It’s harsh when you pronounce it; It has a cold and technological feel to it. It reminds me of steel; cold and uncaring.

    by DreamerGirl on 07.04.2012
  35. i don’t know the meaning, but it sounds like it means a sort of house. Or apartment.

    by jhonny nunez on 07.04.2012
  36. Seems like every modem in my house is missing. As well as in my brain. I can hear. Im a bit lost as well. Drinking is becoming a source of renewable energy. Can’t plug I. To anything at the moment.

  37. AGAIN! I already had this word!!! So wait…This whole one word a day…. They really mean it? But I don’t know anything about MODEM!!! I only know it has something to do with computers…Ugh. Now this is a good waste of 60 seconds. MODEM!!! MODEM!

  38. the connection he felt towards her was slow and reticent, like a ’90’s modem, his feelings were irratic and unreliable.

    by Dystin Johnson on 07.04.2012
  39. A modem is a think used to connect us to everything nowadays. Letters are gone. Now it is just through the modem. Our words we type travel as fast as lightning (faster) with just one click of a button. The world is our oyster, now the modem is so accessible.

    by Kieran on 07.04.2012
  40. I have no idea what this word is. Kindof reminds me of motor or motive. I’m pretty disapointed that I can’t write something more thoughtful because literally nothing comes to mind when I read this unfamiliar word.

    by Kate on 07.04.2012