<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g2g-public01@att.net" target="_blank">g2g-public01@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Originally, carriers were legally forbidden to have any financial
    interest in "content."  Thus the telephone company could not give
    you a better or worse connection depending on whether they did or
    didn't like you or the words you said in conversations.  </blockquote></div><br>As a (humorus?) aside, legend has it that the original automatic telephone switch was invented just to combat this sort of financial conflict of interest.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div class="gmail_extra"><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.190340042114258px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">According to some accounts, Almon Strowger, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_director" title="Funeral director" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">undertaker</a>, was motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having difficulties with the local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator" title="Switchboard operator" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">telephone operators</a>, one of whom was the wife of a competitor. He was said to be convinced that she, as one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange#Manual_service_exchanges" title="Telephone exchange" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none">manual telephone exchange</a> operators was sending calls "to the undertaker" to her husband.<sup class="" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p>
</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div>Have fun,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>-steve
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