Answer:
Innovations in transportation and communication technologies has actually changed the way we think about distance and time
Explanation:
Transportation and communication were part of the major challenges humanity was facing in time past, the distance between places was seen as a barrier, it delayed many things, communication inclusive because of the lengthy time involved in sending messages, goods and services from one place to another, this gave birth to invention of various means of getting these major activities (that man can not do without) done without wasting much time. Ever since then man has began to see distance and time from a completely different angle, things that will take months to get done because of the great distance in time past can actually be carried out today in a couple of seconds.
This question has 2 answers that I can see.
The first one would be a Dial Up Modem. These devices allow (or allowed, since they're pretty much obsolete) a computer to communicate over the phone lines and access the internet.
The second option for an answer would be a DSL Modem/Router. In a sense, a DSL (Standing for Digital Service Line) is a bit of a predecessor to traditional Dial Up, using a digital telephone line (However not the frequencies used for voice) to connect a computer or set of computers together and to the internet.