They’re pulling the plug on California’s last manual telephone switchboard. A computer was being installed this week to replace Kerman Telephone’s four manual units. Rena McDonald of the California ...

Network Neutrality debates are fundamentally about switching – whether network switches can treat some packets differently from others. In this piece, I look back 100 years to the telephone ...

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard with positions for three operators, unknown maker, British, 1925-1960. In use at Enfield Telephone Exchange 22 July 1925 to 5 October 1960 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From the manual switchboards and the early electro-mechanical automatic exchanges developed in ...

BLOOMINGTON — Dial telephones came to the Twin Cities in the 1940s, and though rotary dialing may seem antiquated in this age of the smartphone, back then it was viewed as cutting edge — even ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Our phones were forever being hacked. Faye Paulson at her switchboard at the Dunolly telephone exchange, 1982, one of the last manual ...