I spent a week in Abilene, KS, doing work at the Eisenhower presidential archives for my second book, and I'll never forget the two local museums that had billboards on the interstate:
The Greyhound Hall of Fame The Museum of Independent Telephony
No, I did not go to either one.
August 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I spent a week in Abilene, KS, doing work at the Eisenhower presidential archives for my second book, and I'll never forget the two local museums that had billboards on the interstate:
The Greyhound Hall of Fame The Museum of Independent Telephony
Microsoft fumbled Skype so fucking bad. You remember people used to say "I'll Skype you!" that's how big of a brand they had going internet telephony was literally synonymous with their brand and THEY FUCKED IT UP SO FUCKING BAD!!!
Microsoft fumbled Skype so fucking bad. You remember people used to say "I'll Skype you!" that's how big of a brand they had going internet telephony was literally synonymous with their brand and THEY FUCKED IT UP SO FUCKING BAD!!!
nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter
October 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter
reading more about the history AT&T has made me really appreciate both how significant local and long line service was to people. the internet ate its lunch and rightly so, but telephony was a profoundly revolutionary lifeline for much of the 20th century
September 21, 2026 at 2:16 AM
reading more about the history AT&T has made me really appreciate both how significant local and long line service was to people. the internet ate its lunch and rightly so, but telephony was a profoundly revolutionary lifeline for much of the 20th century
For example: did you know that in the early to mid 1980s every IBM regional office and lots of other companies ran automated, phone based, essentially untraceable, and easily exploitable audio dead drop services
Been reading old (I mean OLD old, likr 1987 and earlier) stuff from 2600 magazine and being driven absolutely nuts with ideas for period spy stories from weird peculiarities in the phone network back then
“Thank you for calling the CEOs only hotline brought to you by the taxpayers of New York, if you are a Sackler or a Durst, please have your personal telephony assistant press 1 for you; if you are a Murdoch or a Musk,…”
December 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
“Thank you for calling the CEOs only hotline brought to you by the taxpayers of New York, if you are a Sackler or a Durst, please have your personal telephony assistant press 1 for you; if you are a Murdoch or a Musk,…”