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A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
By 1890, Telephone had an estimated population of 30. The community continued to grow and by the outbreak of World War I, the number of residents had increased to 100. Unlike many rural communities in Texas during the Great Depression, Telephone's population remained stable at around 100. By the mid-1940s, the community had ten businesses and ...
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
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At that time, some directory publishing departments also began removing the entire central office name from telephone directories, preferring to only list the dialed letters of the prefix. The practice did not produce any adverse effects, [ 4 ] and opened the path for listing telephone numbers in the 2-5 style, where the two letters were ...
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
Brightspeed of Texas was founded in 1956 as Central Telephone of Texas, [1] a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name. In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations. [2]
The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today. [ 1 ] Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible following the advent of time-sharing in the early 1960s, with a notable implementation by MIT 's CTSS project in 1965.