Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “Hello, Operator!,” although controlled by a ...

If you want to talk to your grandmother on messaging app Telegram and she doesn't have a smartphone, she'll need to get one. She'll need to learn how to use iOS or Android. How to manage notifications ...

A reunion of Maine switchboard operators highlights the challenges of making a phone call more than 50 years ago and what it was like to handle... Telephone operators of another era gather to ...

Having encountered the breathtaking Telephone Museum of New Mexico in Albuquerque on Route 66, it's hard to resist a trip down memory lane. According to the story by CNet, from Alexander Graham Bell, ...

While watching a video about old radios from the 1920s, a phone jack popped up. The host mentioned that phone jacks are super old and he wondered what was their origin. I always assumed they had ...

Lori Napoleon had never considered how early phone calls happened. But years ago, while visiting a lighthouse on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she saw the town’s century-old telephone exchange. The odd ...

PANAMA CITY — One ringy-dingy. No, the famous character Ernestine is not on display at the History Museum of Bay County, but a telephone switchboard similar to the one she used on the TV series "Laugh ...