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Tell Us About Your Last Call From A Phone Booth

Online

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

Online

6 years ago

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

Casey Chan

How 911 Became The Emergency Call Number In The United States

Online

7 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.

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network

Online

7 years ago

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network

Sarah Zhang

Mobile

10 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…

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Tell Us About Your Last Call From A Phone Booth

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

How 911 Became The Emergency Call Number In The United States

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network

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

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