telephones caught in between
- 2026-08-02 During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built.
- The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition.
- The Internet, I think we can all agree, is not a single machine but a system of interconnected ones.
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- 2026-08-02 During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built.
- The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition.
- The Internet, I think we can all agree, is not a single machine but a system of interconnected ones.
Sources: Computer