I don't think it's quite that. It's not that "router" came to mean "includes modem", but that modems started to include routers and became known as "routers" even though "routers" without modems in still existed as non-consumer-grade hardware, and now we don't know what "router" means unless it has something to be a modem for in front of it like "ADSL router".
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Date: 2015-04-09 03:46 pm (UTC)