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The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger?
mrfantasy writes "An article in the Newark, NJ Star-Ledge discusses the possible fate of the AT&T Archives, which is a huge, irreplaceable historical repository of most of the advancements of late 19th and 20th century communications. Corporate archives are often casualties of companies when they are subsumed by a parent organization. The archives include such things as long-distance telephone directories from the mid-1890s, containing every long distance subscriber in the country, including Alexander Graham Bell himself; and a microphone from Warren Harding's 1921 inauguration, the first heard by the crowd thanks to AT&T amplification equipment."
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I'd love for those fsckers to go try sell health insurance to a bunch of dead people.
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Scene: 19th century, A Telephone rings
[Voice on phone]: "Hi, is this 7?"
[Guy]: "No, this is 3!"
Hey, here is an idea.
Why don't we create a national museum or series of museums to house and display things relating to our national history or just cool things in general.
You know we could put the museum(s) in a central location. Like the nation's capit[a|o]l.
Maybe we could get some really wealthy person to donate money for the museum(s). We could be nice and name the museum(s) after that person.
Hell, I beat the guy could even be a British scientist. Congress could be a big help here.
And since it is a government sponsored museum, entry could be free, or a nominal charge.
Someday the museum(s) could grow to be the largest museum complex in the world. They could function as "an establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge."
Yeah, that would be great.
You misunderstand. Reread the summary. They actually have a catalog containing the corpses of all the long distance subscribers. As such, all the rules involving cemeteries should apply here. Who needs TFA when I have Slashdot to boil it down to the basic ideas?
It's kind of like life... changing your parents' diapers when they get old.
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"Corporate archives are often casualties of companies when they are subsumed by a parent organization."
What? Is the submitter suggesting that SBC intends on setting fire to the historical archives of AT&T(presumably before killing the family members of the AT&T CEO lest they challenge SBC for the throne in the future)? Come on! These aren't the Vandals invading the Roman Empire.
not AT&aT
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