06-26-2023, 02:12 PM
(06-26-2023, 11:23 AM)user328 Wrote: I traded in the panoramic gateway for a regular telephone/Internet modem.
ARPANET is now online, and I can dial out on my rotary phones. As it should be.
When rotary phones were current, you only had to dial 7 digits for a local number. In small towns with one exchange, you only had to dial the last 4 digits. You have to really love fones to use one nowadays. You have to dial 10 digits for every number. There's no distinction between local and long distance.
The old exchanges connected so slowly that you could dial your own number and hang up, and the phone would ring.
