excellent personal account: http://www.texasescapes.com/CFEckhardt/Rural-Telephone-Systems-in-the-West.htm …pic.twitter.com/jOqobLdNdq
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People built cat's whisker radios, and wife's father attached his aerial to the telephone line. Until the day when.../2
Just wait, Comcast will sue.
in early 1900s, it was telegraph company Western Union who wanted these shut down
phreakin’ ranchers… always takin’ away the hard earned telco $$ … *writes a new story* :)
I see what you did there 
source on that?
this was written about in the book 'the Victorian internet' by Tom Standage
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