On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

Corpus Christi got its first telephone exchange in 1890, at the same time it got its first electric light poles. The Corpus Christi Electric Light Co., owned by Dr. A.G. Heaney, T.P. Rivera and John ...

Probably not the best thread title. My current setup is. I have a DSL telephone copper line that runs from my street cabinet to my room where I have my computer and into the wireless routers port.

It’s hard to imagine in the age of cellphones, but for decades, many people used “party line” telephones they shared with multiple users. Party lines tend to be associated with rural areas, but there ...