re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

I don’t know if this qualifies, but I hired on to a bell system phone company in the 70s when there was open wire for some phone service and 8 party lines in rural areas. Those were a nightmare.

We finally got buried copper plastic insulated conductor cables to feed the customers and eleminated party lines all together.

Moving forward we introduced digital offices and developed that wonderful dial up internet everyone loved…haha, but folks were jumping all over it. It was a pain in the arse because people wanted it to be faster but it wasn’t possible.

Then came dsl which was much faster but folks grew weary of it. Then came uverse which was faster but harder to maintain on copper cables. Then fiber helped that.

There’s more crap in between but being a part of this era may be considered historical because I’m sitting here typing out a message to folks I don’t know all over the world.


My apologies if bored you folks…..