Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone
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Young tech nerds in Seattle are trying to preserve the mysterious machines — many of them almost lost forever — that made America's landline telephone system work before the age of computers.
Young tech nerds in Seattle are trying to preserve the mysterious machines — many of them almost lost forever — that made America's landline telephone system work before the age of computers.
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You're Wanted on the Telephone
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Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone : NPR
Hollywood overlooks 50-plus crowd. Label aims to change that - Los Angeles Times
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January 25, 1915: First phone call across the continent
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Mourning the Analog Phone Call - The New York Times
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A history of the copper telephone line
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Subjective Cognitive Decline — United States, 2015–2020
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50 years ago today the first mobile phone call was made - Tech Digest
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9/11: We Remember
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An Elegy for the Landline in Literature
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Do Polls Still Work If People Don't Answer Their Phones?