Meet the lost Steve Ballmer Microsoft Windows 1.0 infomercial. It ran on late night TV stations in the midwest? Operators are still standing by? Except in Nebraska...pic.twitter.com/pVVG7LSoPb
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*The same* 800 number, and post-Bell breakup. Because the numbering system for WATS was divided between carriers, a given 800 number prefix could either be assigned to a long-distance company or to a local phone company.
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@FCC only mandated "portable" 800 numbers in the late 80s, once nationwide database lookups could be done fast enough to handle every call in real time, so that a company that had built a national brand like 1-800-FLOWERS had freedom to switch carriers.
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Of course this was an inside joke, the reference is a poke at Jeff Raikes who hails from Nebraska
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