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What Is a Dropped Call?

Elizabeth Cobb is the author of a new book, "The Hello Girls" She explains how phone lines were used in the 1800s. Today's notion of a dropped call comes from those flaps that would drop. The operator on the other end could tell if you're done with your call by making a click.

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