It’s fair to say that there can’t be many developers who have found the need for a rotary telephone dial as a peripheral for their Linux computer, but in case you are among them you might find [Stefan ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

Stuart Sliter, 84, says it wasn’t all that hard filling in as a telephone operator as a preteen more than 70 years ago since plugging a cable into the proper place on one of two switchboards simply ...

[Max] had a rotary dial from an old telephone and — unsurprisingly — had nothing in particular to do with it. The simple answer? Use an Arduino Leonardo to turn it into a USB keyboard device. Of ...

The smartphone changed the world, but it wasn’t all for the better. Mobile devices are packed full of endless productivity-killing distractions, and the ability to actually make a phone call almost ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – In today’s world of cellphones, stored phone numbers and automatic dialing, we don’t need to remember anybody’s phone number. But back in the day of rotary-dial and push-button ...

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 ...