Subj : Re: Phone Facts
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Jay Harris
Date : Thu May 12 2022 08:00 pm

*** Quoting Kurt Weiske from a message to Jas Hud ***

KW>  More phone trivia, area codes were designed so that the most
KW> populous  areas had the lowest numbers, because they were dialed on a
KW> rotary  phone and would be dialed more often. Compare New York (212),
KW> Los  Angeles (213), Hawaii (808) and Alaska (907).

More interesting phone trvia:

Alexander Graham Bell died at his summer home in Nova Scotia on August 2,
1922. Two days later all telephone service in the United States and Canada
was suspended for a full minute at the precise moment when Bell was lowered
into his grave. 60,000 telephone operators stood silently at attention and
did not connect any new calls as the continent's 13 million telephones went
quiet.

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Jay

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