The first telephones were hard enough to use without the added harassment of the teenage boys who worked as the earliest switchboard operators — and who were, per PBS, notoriously rude. It was ...

Before smartphones, landline telephones were the way most people kept in touch. And until direct dialing became common, a switchboard operator's assistance was often needed to help with long-distance ...

(Editor’s note: Before dawn on March 9, 1916, the Mexican revolutionary leader, Pancho Villa raided the village of Columbus, New Mexico. Many businesses were burned and 18 U.S. citizens were killed.

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...

HINES, Minn. — The earliest telephone systems connected people, eased some of the loneliness and isolation of homesteaders who lived far from other family members, provided alarms in times of ...

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 ...

If it’s true that millennials don’t like to talk to people on the phone, they might want to spare a thought for the generations before them. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

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Eventually to become affectionately known as “Old Betsy,” a Western Electric TBX-556A telephone switchboard went into service in 1958 in West Milford Town Hall to facilitate communication in the ...

Helpline counselors answer phones 24/7 at Switchboard Miami in this file photo from 2010. Switchboard provides phone counselors for those in times of need. MARICE COHN BAND MIAMI HERALD STAFF Hit by a ...