Before cellphones, before dial-up, if you wanted to make a phone call, you talked to an operator. That operator sat in front of a wall covered in... Jun 19, 2017 — Before cellphones, before dial-up, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed how people communicate at work: Nearly half of people videoconference more, 43% email more, 42% call more, and 41% text more than before the pandemic, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed how people communicate at work: Nearly half of people videoconference more, 43% email more, 42% call more, and 41% text more than before the pandemic, ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

SALISBURY ó Rowan Regional Medical Center switchboard operators were back at work Wednesday after a disastrous attempt to move the call center to Winston-Salem. After one week, hospital President Dari ...

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 ...