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Pictorial and Written History of Bell Systems
gngulrajani writes "I have wasted an afternoon digging though this website. Lots of old school Bell marketing posters as well as technical specifications for things such as 'Telephone Memory Devices' and a 'dataphone service'."
I managed to get the site text before it was slashdotted.
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What is slashdot?
They're still after me.
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This is a recording.
"Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth.
We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care. Watch this!
[bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano]
just lost Peoria. You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it?
Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string.
We don't care.
We don't have to.
We're the Phone Company!"
-- Lily Tomlin from "Saturday Night Live: The First 20 Years" (1994 Cader Company).
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Well, guess what? You posted the damn address on Slashdot now I can't waste an afternoon digging through that website. Now I have to do my job and update a bunch of Windows 2003 servers because M$ can't get its patches right.
Next time you feel the need to not waste my afternoon, DON'T!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
"We're sorry, but your fingers are too fat to dial."
"If you require a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand, now."
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
"At some point I expect all these to be one company again"
One ringy dingy to rule them all
One ringy dingy to find them
One ringy dingy to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.
Complexity is Easy. Simplicity is Hard.
hey, I did the same thing. well for a while, then there was the government, Cheyanne mountian, AI, and quite nearly 'Global Thermonuclear War'.
At least I had a girlfriend.
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you know, replying to your own post twice nearly counts as masterbation. ;)
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I have wasted an afternoon digging though this website.
Well, we won't. It has been slashdotted. Bummer. I like old phone stuff.
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
At the bottom of the page there's this:
:)
Charlie Stanley, an AT&T employee who was born in the year the Bell System died, created a hoax web page of what he envisions as a new Bell System.
leading to...
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I didn't know if it was the actual page or the result of slashdotting