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Tell Us About Your Last Call From A Phone Booth

Mobile

5 years ago

Tell Us About Your Last Call From A Phone Booth

Attila Nagy

Super Fun Video Mixes Phone Call Scenes From Movies Into One Long Game Of Telephone

Entertainment

5 years ago

Super Fun Video Mixes Phone Call Scenes From Movies Into One Long Game Of Telephone

Casey Chan

6 years ago

How 911 Became The Emergency Call Number In The United States

Sarah Stone - TodayIFoundOut.com

Before the 1960s, the United States didn’t have one universal phone number for Americans to call if they needed help from the police or fire department. Callers simply had to know the phone number for each department in the area they were currently in.

7 years ago

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network

Sarah Zhang

Mobile

9 years ago

Don’t Wanna Memorise Numbers? Call Someone’s Twitter Handle Instead

Sam Biddle

I have no idea what my mum’s cell phone number is. I don’t think I’ve ever known the phone number of a girlfriend. Why would I? You probably don’t either! Contact lists killed them. But web service Go800 wants to skip the whole number thing entirely, letting you hit people…

Phreaking The Phones: Before There Was Hacking

Mobile

11 years ago

Phreaking The Phones: Before There Was Hacking

Brian Lam

Telephone Tone Musical Puts Some Real Life Musicians to Shame

Entertainment

12 years ago

Telephone Tone Musical Puts Some Real Life Musicians to Shame

Jack Loftus

First-Ever Phone Directory and Instruction Manual to Be Auctioned

Gadgets

12 years ago

First-Ever Phone Directory and Instruction Manual to Be Auctioned

Addy Dugdale

This is the world’s first phone directory—and it’s going up for sale next month in New York at Christie’s auctioneers. The Telephone Directory, Volume 1, Number 1, for New Haven, Connecticut, aptly enough, is, at 20 pages, more of a pamphlet than the kind of thing that big strong men…

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