A history of the North American Numbering Plan

[hortence]

Because this is stuff you NEED to know.

Check out the Belly system video from before most on this board were born. It features smoking hot Bell System "telephone girls" and extreme close up of electro-mechanical switches in action.

Not for the faint of heart.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...a-code/283803/

Hopefully more interesting than the usual whiny butthertz poopypants name calling.

[Hugh Conway]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/sta...ng-out-ma-bell

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/s...hannon1948.pdf

[hortence]

Yeah, the Neal Stephenson article was fucking brilliant. I used to subscribe to Wired, BITD when I gave a damn. I've read most of his novels twice.

But if you really want to get the geek on, let's not forget Captain Crunch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper

I've always been fascinated by the phone system and it's morphed offspring, the internet.

[hortence]

And hell, I'll see your Shannon and raise you a Vannenver Bush, the concetpual father! of the internet.

As We May Think

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-think/303881/

Talk about visionary.

Huh. Another Atlantic article. What a bunch of highbrows.