#Telephony

[wordfromoursponsor]

"It is predicted that one day telephones will be so small they will be packaged in almost any handy article---sunglasses, for instance. Wherever you are then, you'll be able to communicate quickly and conveniently." (1968)

[humanoidhistory]

1968 videophone demo with Finland's president Urho Kekkonen (left) and Björn Lundvall, an executive with Ericsson of Sweden.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

there's something that's just cute about these. wish they'd stuck around, or that a similar system could have been created for "translating" a number into an easily-pronounced word or phrase, something like T-9. though i guess the possibility for being assigned a phone number that correlates to very undesirable words would make it a liability

[julieverne]

Also someone called me a nerd because we (my colleagues with 3d printers and myself) were trying to convince other people to get 3d printers so we can print out a 1:1 copy of our building and store it on top of our building (Exactly To Scale) and I mean, he was right, but then I went home and started planning a print of something from the Smithsonian 3d exhibits (telegraphic technology)

[irradiate-space]

Of course, the point of having a "do not use this phone number for [work] business" voicemail message is kind of mooted by the fact that I pick up the phone anyways and then it's someone from [work] and ugh.

If [work] wants me to be available by telephone, they should provide me with a phone.

[hobo-rg]

in case you're wondering why the middle digit is always either 1 or 0, that's because they used to let you not bother dialing the area code if you were calling within your own area code (which most of the time you were, probably). So the switch had to be able to tell if you were dialing a seven-digit local number or a ten-digit long distance number, and remember this is 1947 and the switch is completely electromechanical (vacuum tubes are not reliable enough; transistors have just been invented and aren't ready for mass production) so it isn't practical to make it store the whole number and count the digits.

So what they did was make all the area codes have a 1 or 0 in the middle, and all the local exchange codes (the first three digits of a seven-digit local number) not have a 0 or 1 in the middle. That way the switch only had to remember the first digit and only until it got the second one.

You'll notice none of the area codes start with 0 or 1 either. 0 was a complete number by itself, meaning "connect me to a human operator". 1 as the first digit must have done something special as well, but I don't know what that was. (Much later, I think it was in the early 1980s, they changed it to "a leading 1 means you're about to dial an area code" because they ran out of area codes with 0 or 1 in the middle. Nowadays, of course, the switch is a computer and it does know how long the number is, which is what makes SMS shortcodes possible.)

The original Area Code map for North America. High population areas got lower numbers because they took less time to dial. (0=10)

[uneasylisteningradio]

411 - Phones and Information February 22, 2025

It's Uneasy Listening episode #411 so I'm doing the theme of phones again! Along with some songs about information. listen to the show

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Disturbed Furniture - Information

DJ speaks over The Ventures - Memphis

Palais Schaumburg - Telefon Tyrades - Message from the Operator Sylvester - Call Me Cry Shark - One Phone Call

DJ speaks over Blondie - Call Me (Russ Danoff Instrumental Mix)

Abreacts - Telephone Hunx & His Punx - Teardrops on My Telephone The Fall - Telephone Thing The Cedars - For Your Information Lime Crush - Téléphone The Suburban Homes - I-Phone Suicide

DJ speaks over The Phones - #

Tuesday Piranha - Telephone Jaydee Short (J.D. Short) - Telephone Arguin' Blues Heavy Mother - Government Phone Desmond Simmons - Phone Ringing Patsy's Rats - Looking at Yr Phone

DJ speaks over Giordio Moroder - Call Me (12" instrumental mix)

Yoko Ono - Telephone Piece Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line ISMATIC GURU - An Incredible Amount of Overwhelming Information The Cigarettes - I've Forgot My Number (Now I'm Telling You My Name) Johnny Thunders - Get Off the Phone Golden Earrings - Call Me Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation Collate - Phone Call Nightshift - Phone Rotary Club - Phonemate

Кино - Твой номер The Spirit of Memphis Quartet - The Atomic Telephone Kosmetika - Pick Up The Phone Drake Tungsten - Call Me When You Come Home Quaaludes - Call You Up Honey Radar - Telephone Betty's Aneurysm

die egozentrischen 2 - Durchdrehn Am Telefon Personality Cult - Telephone Wazmo Nariz - Tele-Tele-Telephone Artificial Go - Pay Phone

The Rats - Broken Wire Telephone

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[humorandwhatnot]

Telephony

[wordfromoursponsor]

Advertising by picturephone in 1964

[danniswrites]

Southern Tech In Chamblee, Part 2

MR Carter is Robert Carter, known as Bob, who later became an instructor at Southern Tech. He was Daddy's best friend and an avid photographer.

I think the card is one signed by Dad's students when he had a terrible 6-week long kidney infection. He taught from my parents' apartment where his students came to class.

Daddy started The Telephone Option at Southern Tech. Nobody remembers that now in this day and age of cellphones. This was the age of rotary-dial phones that were wired to a bedroom or living room outlet, and you were limited by that wire, which was usually cloth-wrapped. Phones were black. But the telephone industry was booming, and Southern Bell was 'the' phone company. During the summer, Dad would work at Bell Labs and bring home a few projects. One was a speech synthesizer. It was really funny to hear a machine go through the vowels from A to U in a droning voice, which came out of a cardboard box with transistors and copper wire with soldered connections. But that one drone from A to U was all it could do and that novelty wore off fast.

Stay tuned for Part 3 STI Marietta Campus!

[androiderr]

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[howzitsa]

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[sangeersoft]

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[smoothtallk]

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[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Me, looking for a civil service job for that dank pension

The civil service website: