Re: 3 March 1885: Happy Birthday, American Telephone & Telegraph

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

AT&T, mining your data since 1983 :-)

On 3/3/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> In my recurring "00:01" series -- a pursuit to provide a memory
> of important things we should not forget in technology -- I give
> you todays entry.
>
> One additional note -- I'm so pissed off at the telcos right now, for various reason, I almost used this graphic 
> instead of the one that I ended up using for the blog:
>
>  http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/small_att.png
>
> Acually, this one is pretty good, too:
>
>  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Newatt.gif
>
>
> [snip]
>
> American Telephone and Telegraph was incorporated as a company in this day in 1885.
>
> The formation of the Bell Telephone Company superseded an agreement between Alexander Graham Bell and his financiers, 
> principal among them Gardiner G. Hubbard and Thomas Sanders. Renamed the National Bell Telephone Company in March 
> 1877, it became the American Bell Telephone Company in March 1880. By 1881, it had bought a controlling interest in 
> the Western Electric Company from Western Union. Only three years earlier, Western Union had turned down Gardiner 
> Hubbard's offer to sell it all rights to the telephone for $100,000.
>
> In 1880, the management of American Bell, created what would become AT&T Long Lines. The project was the first of its 
> kind to create nationwide long-distance network with a commercially viable cost-structure. This project was formally 
> incorporated into a separate company christened American Telephone and Telegraph Company on March 3, 1885. Starting 
> from New York the network reached Chicago, Illinois in 1892.
>
> Bell's patent on the telephone expired in 1894, but the company's much larger customer base made its service much 
> more valuable than alternatives and substantial growth continued.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/03/3-march-1885-happy-birthday-american.html
>
> Enjoy.
>
> - ferg
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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>
>
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