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Every local phone company had a number you could dial to get the correct time. It was an easy way to synchronize the clocks in your house after a power outage, or if your watch had run down. 9.

There is some delicious irony in proposing that the internet be memorialized in what was once an AT&T facility, for the old telephone company resisted the arrival of the internet, hoping we would ...

At some point in the late 1950s, the phone company changed telephone numbers to seven digits and the use of exchange names was discontinued nationally in the mid-1960s, only 60 years ago.

As the company geared up for the 1938 dial system switch, Dr. H.G. Heaney, son of A.G. Heaney, recalled the beginning of the telephone company when he was about 12 years old.