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Early telephones required human operators to patch calls
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Before the luxury of simply dialing a number, you had to pick up an earpiece, wait for a disgruntled worker on a switchboard to answer, and kindly ask them to manually plug your wire into your neighbor's wire. It was a completely physical process that ensured every single town had at least one person who could eavesdrop on everyone.
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