Blog article--Technical Communications Means

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Submitted by whilldtkwriter on Thu, Mar 11 2010 - 11:41 AM

After talking to Matt at yesterday's door64 meetup at Triumph Cafe and getting clarification on what's ok to blog at door64, I'm posting about my most recent blog item from http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/. (I will post two other items, then lay off until my I post my next blogspot article.)

My blog article takes the reader down memory lane for movies, songs, and TV shows that feature telephones and letters. It includes links to youtube videos, lyrics, IMDB references, and other links of interest. Please visit http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-communications-mean... and comment. Thanks.

Excerpts--
Telephone and mail correspondence­mostly referenced in songs, movies, and a few TV shows are the technical communications means I'm talking about. At the time of those media release, they reflected the prevailing technology for non-f2f interactions. Back then, letters did not reach recipients within seconds, older phone calls person-to-person required manual dialing on a rotary dial (woe if numbers were 8s, 9s, or zeros and your dialing finger slipped), and there was no Caller ID nor answering machine. Cheap mass mailing? Fuggedaboutit!

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* Songs that Feature Letters
* Songs that Feature Phones
* Movies that Feature Phones and Letters
* TV Shows that Feature Phones

Comments

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When I was a child, some

Submitted by jdunham on Thu, Mar 18 2010 - 1:25 PM.

When I was a child, some rural areas still used crank-style phones. You picked up the earpiece, turned the crank to cause a ring at the other (operator's) end and asked to be connected to your party. I don't know when the last of those went away, but it was probably when the last, small, independent phone company was absorbed by one of the majors, like AT&T or GTE. One advantage of such systems was that you didn't need to remember a phone number. The operator knew the names of everyone on her board (and was always a "her"). Of course she could also listen in on your conversations, and many in small towns did.

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Jerry Dunham
Older than dirt