[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed twine lacing

Brian Dunbar brian.dunbar at liftport.com
Sat Jan 27 09:33:09 CST 2007


Bill Bradford wrote:

> Am I the only person who thought that things worked better when AT&T
> was in charge of it all from end to end?

Things might have worked better - but are you talking about the era when
you didn't own your own phone, couldn't attach anything to the phone
network without permission from the telco and Lily Tomlin's Ernestine
character said "We don't care, we don't have to. We're the phone company."

I'll take what we've got now.

Note, I didn't start working in IT until 1989, so I've never experienced
 a pre-breakup telco environment.  I might be missing something.


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