# ISDN History: Why It (Mostly) Failed To Make A Mark

<https://tedium.co/2024/01/12/isdn-history-retrospective/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I had ISDN service to my apartment in the early 2000's. For the time it was fast, but the gear was always finicky. At MarketWatch at that time we also had ISDN lines for all of our videoconferencing systems because our Internet connections were not stable enough and had too high of latency. We also used ISDN for our MarketWatch Radio network. 

Sadly this article doesn't reference at all the only ISDN remnant that I still thoroughly enjoy — Future Sound of London's album [ISDN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN_(album)), released in 1994. I just started playing it. 🎶

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