[3] The company was founded by Frank B. Manning and Bruce Kramer, two fellow roommates and graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who had known each other since the late 1960s.

Branded the "Silencer", it generated $200,000 in the first few years of Zoom's existence and prompted the founders to release more telephonic gadgets.

The "Demon Dialer" proved short-lived in usefulness after the breakup of the Bell System, which allowed these independent companies to harness so-called 1+10 dialing, so Zoom turned to developing dial-up modems for microcomputers such as the Apple II and the IBM PC.

Their first modem, introduced in 1983 and called the Networker, was so popular that the company had difficulty finding enough shelf space in retail outlets, so Zoom's executives turned to mail order as an alternative sales channel.

[3] In December 2020, the company completed a merger with Minim, Inc. and rebranded to Minim, moved their headquarters from Boston, Massachusetts to Manchester, New Hampshire, and began selling cable modems, gateways, WiFi routers, mesh WiFi systems, and other home networking products, with an emphasis on home automation.

[1] On September 11, 2023, Minim announced it was exploring options in effort to save the company from permanent closure, including a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.