Seeing this, I wonder if the world has forgotten what a computer is. Now we've got devices, for example phones, and the computer (and the Internet) is right at the surface of the device. When we used CRT displays, we knew our display was just a repurposed television screen that communicated with a separate and discreet computer, which was another (and different) kind of machine.
Same with modems. When they screeched and howled, the duration of noise and the "seeking" nature of the sounds was a clear indicator that we were connecting to other devices at a distance, devices that were not always available, over connections that were tenuous.
Now everything is immediate and ubiquitous. The computer has been subsumed into the terminal itself. And what was distant is at our fingertips.