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[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/16/08 22 50 9, msm at portata.com writes:


> They didn't have seven-digit phone numbers in 1927. 
> 
>>>True--at the time in San Francisco, phone numbers consisted of three 
letters, and four numbers.   In 1947-48 it changed to two letters, and five 
numbers.   But the numbers corresponding to the letters remained the same, so 
(XXX-7860, I don't know what the pre-1947 letters in our phone number were) changed 
to DElaware 4-7860, which later became, and is the same as 334-7860.

So when my grandparents and father moved into this house in 1927, they got a 
phone number, and that number has remained effectively unchanged ever since.

> I remember the two letter exchange codes from my youth, though
> 
>>>I remember ads for older San Francisco businesses (a plumbing company 
comes to mind) using the two-letter exchange code well into the 1970s.   
Eventually only older people even knew what they meant, and everybody just converted to 
using seven numbers.

Trevor--riddle me this.   If I have my own domain name, but am sitting in a 
hotel that has no organic internet service in a small country in Africa, how am 
I supposed to get on-line to access my domain?

Besides providing an e-mail account, what AOL offers that few others have is 
worldwide, local, direct dial-up internet service.   And so it's cheaper to 
keep paying $14.95 a month or whatever to get dial-up access, rather than pay 
$12 a night in a hotel (typical charge in the US, it's usually more in Europe) 
to access the internet to get to my 'free' e-mail provider.

Mike

Mike


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