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Article #621595Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:24
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:24
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On Tue, 2018-03-27, Quadibloc wrote: > On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 2:20:02 AM UTC-6, Christian Corti wrote: > >> In _1954_ ? Are you serious? How backward was the US at that time? >> Just wondering... > > While it is true that automated telephone exchanges were introduced in the 1920s, > I'm sure that they started in the major cities. That rural areas still used > operator-assisted calling for local calls up until the 1950s in some cases does > not strike me as too unbelievable. Yes. Mom described to me how that worked in rural Sweden, around 1950: who ran the village exchange, which hops my grandfather had to specify to reach his siblings two parishes away, and so on. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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