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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The History of Telecommunications
When telephones were first around, you would pick up your phone and you would get... it was sort of a direct electrical connection to the operator. And then when people started having long distance phone calls and things, it became quite unrealistic to have somebody just sort of plug these together. It's very curious. There's no big stop. It doesn't stop. Well, gosh. I'm... No, it stopped. Any case.
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