The first commercial office, the Strowger exchange, which began operating in the early 1890s, was the first to replace a human operator with an electromechanical switch. (Strowger, a mortician, invented the system to get around a local operator, the wife of a competing mortician, whom he suspected of redirecting calls for Strowger to her husband.)
This is from an article on how DNS will be used to replace directory service in the future. IEEE Spectrum: Telephony's Next Act. I tend to disagree with the main contention of this article in that DNS is particularly unsuited for this task and an entirely new protocol should be adapted. In fact, the article itself is full of reasons that DNS should not be used, but it was written by PAUL V. MOCKAPETRIS chairman and chief scientist of Nominum Inc. Nominum, of course, makes their money running, you guessed it, DNS servers.
I haven't heard the story of Strowger in years. Thanks! It's amazing how the invention of the early ESS was based on mistrust. I guess mistrust must be a subset of necessity!
Does any one make a Voip adapter to support magneto phones? That would be a hoot -- needles, but a hoot..
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