Comments by "kd1s" (@kd1s) on "Century 21 Calling, 1962 - ATu0026T Archives - World's Fair tour" video.

Kind of funny when you think of all the features we love on cellphones, or take for granted used to be features that Bell charged you extra to provide them. And they completely missed on the Picture Phone too.
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How very wrong they were about the 21st century. Completely missed that phones would move from being tethered to phones you could hold in the palm of your hand that have more features like video, web, etc.
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It's odd how the old Bell System could hit it straight on for some things like DTMF, but miss so badly about what the 21st century and even late 20th would bring. They completely downplayed the cellular revolution. That was a biggy.
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@jgrysiak6566 Yeah I recall when I lived in North Providence, RI. First place i lived ahad a Providence rate center -phone number (401)-353. Then moved a half mile away and got a Pawtucket rate center number (401)-725. Which meant no I paid a toll to call Warwick, RI. Found out about FX lines and got one.
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@albear972 thing was any computing wasn't in your home but at the central office. All the phones had were a few transistors and big ass induction coils.
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