The progression of the phone system

I would guess that most of you who are reading this grew up with Ma Bell and the telephone technology that kept us in touch with our family and friends and businesses but not the entire world like our Smart Phone of today do.

My parents didn’t have a home phone until about 1968. However, my great grandparents had a wall phone in their home in the 1940s. However, where we lived that wasn’t an option…