It's hard to imagine almost 30 years ago that the first Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems were coming online to eventually replace operators. In fact, AT&T no longer has an operators. At all! They got rid of them several years ago. This video came out in...
Thanks to a contribution from a visitor, we have a new section - Various Virginia Telephone Recordings! Check it out!
A great video on the UK Speaking Clock and its history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeMNrwRO-A
Evan Doorbell is mentioned in an article about talkable busy signals back in the old days where impromptu conferences were found. https://onezero.medium.com/the-prototype-for-clubhouse-is-40-years-old-and-it-was-built-by-phone-hackers-71389d117cad
We've just completed our move to the new site. We're making updates and additions as we go! Many more things will be added to the site as we go along. I've been keeping a lot of things in storage waiting to develop a new site to hold them all. That time is just about...
Some updates to the site as we continue our transition from our old site to this one: The pages for Cellular Phone History have been completed. The section discusses pre-cellular (with MTS and IMTS), AMPS, 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G. Check out the section at the Cellular...
Progress is being made with site updates, migrating the old site to the new one, and also adding new content. Updates include the Links of Interest page and the Stories pages.
Welcome to the new Telephone World! We are making a brand new site from scratch. If you were a user at the old site, you'll see most of that site being recreated here, and new things added. LOTS of updates need to be made! So hold tight while the old site is being...