Dinosaur Sightings: Lotus Symphony 3.0

At the time that Symphony was being developed, the Internet was still in its infancy and not widely accessible. However, lots of online services existed—you just had to have a modem and a communications application in order to get connected directly to the service’s server. Since Symphony was positioned as a business tool, being able to access online banking services or online stock information was a necessary feature. Symphony’s COMM was the modem communication program that allowed you to connect to pre-Internet online services.

COMM also allowed you to use a Null Modem cable to create a two-computer peer-to-peer network.