First Phone Book Up For Auction<< New BSP Mantra: Retention, Retention, Retention | Main | Who Doesn’t Need a Personal Assistant? >> Doug Williams | June 02, 2008, 01:40 PM Discovery has an article about the only known copy of the first telephone book ever published going on the auction block. Instructions within the book inform users to commence a conversation by saying “Hulloa.” Also included is the first fair use plan, circa 1878: Users are instructed to limit calls to three minutes, no more than twice per hour, without first gaining permission from the main office. Ah, monopolies. |
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