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Flashback: Telephone Operators

January 7, 2013

In Germany, telephone calls outside the local network had to be connected by hand. That was the job of the friendly telephone operator. The country's first telephone exchange was set up in Berlin in 1881. Anyone who wanted to place an international call needed to register it well in advance.

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