On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:30:52AM +0000, gordon b slater wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were once common in cities?
Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about the start of the cellfone introduction.
@Jim, maybe it's more a telco/2600 thing?
found it, actually was once in my .signature: "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used communications technology in the days before electronic mail. They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion. -- Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +92 336 520-4504 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"