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#TBT: Corpus Christi's first telephone lines went up in 1890
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCorpus Christi got its first telephone exchange in 1890, at the same time it got its first electric...
AT&T May Be in Trouble
GuruFocus.com via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoNearly 25 years ago, while attending college in North Georgia, I worked for Bell South Mobility selling cell phones, which later merged back into AT&T...
Did you get a phone book this year? Also, for some of us: what is a phone book?
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIf you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us,...
Who Remembers Telephone Party Lines?
Southern Living via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThese multiparty phone lines created a lot of problems—and a lot of good gossip. Telephone technology has come a long way even in my lifetime. As a young...
The history of the American phone book
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOnce a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical...
Why AT&T and Verizon’s infrastructure woes run much deeper than lead cables
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoWith AT&T shares hitting a 30-year low and Verizon shares hitting a 15-year low last week in the...
50 Years Ago, the First Cell Phone Call Was Made on This DynaTAC Dinosaur
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn April 3, 1973, a man named Martin Cooper was walking through the streets of Manhattan carrying...
Little-known museum celebrates the history and legacy of the telephone
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoMay 11—ALBUQUERQUE — If you don't have a ringing sound running through your ears before taking a tour of the Telephone Museum of New Mexico, you might have one afterward. This little-known love ...
Kevin Mitnick, former 'most wanted' hacker who police said could launch nukes by whistling into a...
PC Gamer via Yahoo News· 10 months agoKevin Mitnick, the worlds most notorious hacker poses for a portrait at the Brown Palace. Mitnick...
This building housed pioneers of Columbia’s 20th century boom. Now it’s being restored
The State McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoA widow, a service representative at a phone company, a cigar salesman and a state hospital clerk...
