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Mar 3, 2015 · We of a certain age remember when telephone numbers used to start with names instead of digits. The first two letters of the name were usually capitalized, and they corresponded to the first two...
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Aug 10, 2023 · In the late 1950s and throughout the next two decades, U.S. phone systems began switching to all-number calling, which didn’t rely on archaic telephone exchanges and could exponentially add...
Feb 13, 2014 · The area codes that lead our own phone numbers today—212, 202, 415—were direct results of their work. They were also based on a particular type of hardware: rotary phones.
Oct 11, 2023 · The first customer-dialed direct call using a 10-digit number, complete with an area code, was made on November 10, 1951. Explore the fascinating evolution of US phone numbers from their alphanumeric origins to today's 10-digit system, understanding changes and features.
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Feb 9, 2024 · The world’s first telephone exchange took place on Jan. 28, 1878. Three weeks later, Coy published a list of New Haven’s 50 phone subscribers (names of people and businesses only, as phone numbers didn’t yet exist): the first-ever phone directory.
In most areas of North America, telephone numbers in metropolitan communities consisted of a combination of digits and letters, starting in the 1920s until the 1960s. Letters were translated to dialed digits, a mapping that was displayed directly on the telephone dial.
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Jan 29, 2015 · The first telephone numbers weren’t numbers at all – they were names, either your personal name or the name of your company. Obviously, that was way too confusing since many people share the same name, so in 1879 they began assigning numbers to each customer, with a four-digit code being most common.
