The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger? 159
mrfantasy writes "An article in the Newark, NJ Star-Ledge discusses the possible fate of the AT&T Archives, which is a huge, irreplaceable historical repository of most of the advancements of late 19th and 20th century communications. Corporate archives are often casualties of companies when they are subsumed by a parent organization. The archives include such things as long-distance telephone directories from the mid-1890s, containing every long distance subscriber in the country, including Alexander Graham Bell himself; and a microphone from Warren Harding's 1921 inauguration, the first heard by the crowd thanks to AT&T amplification equipment."
Dumpster? (Score:5, Funny)
We have eBay now.
From an 1890 (Score:5, Funny)
Telemarketers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:From an 1890 (Score:2, Funny)
That's the speed of Law Enforcement, eh?
family guy quote (Score:5, Funny)
[Voice on phone]: "Hi, is this 7?"
[Guy]: "No, this is 3!"
Re:Great Case for a Museum (Score:5, Funny)
Why don't we create a national museum or series of museums to house and display things relating to our national history or just cool things in general.
You know we could put the museum(s) in a central location. Like the nation's capit[a|o]l.
Maybe we could get some really wealthy person to donate money for the museum(s). We could be nice and name the museum(s) after that person.
Hell, I beat the guy could even be a British scientist. Congress could be a big help here.
And since it is a government sponsored museum, entry could be free, or a nominal charge.
Someday the museum(s) could grow to be the largest museum complex in the world. They could function as "an establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge."
Yeah, that would be great.
Great Case for a [presidential] Museum (Score:1, Funny)
So why do all the presidents have their own museum?
Re:family guy quote (Score:2, Funny)
Phone: The new number 2. You are number 6
Guy: I'm not a number i'm a free man!
Phone: hahahahahahahah
NoNoNo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They can't... (Score:3, Funny)
A little rabble rousing to stir up the proletariat (Score:3, Funny)
What? Is the submitter suggesting that SBC intends on setting fire to the historical archives of AT&T(presumably before killing the family members of the AT&T CEO lest they challenge SBC for the throne in the future)? Come on! These aren't the Vandals invading the Roman Empire.
Re:Corrections (Score:5, Funny)
Their armor is too strong for blasters. Use your harpoons and tow cables!
Re:From an 1890 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:From an 1890 (Score:3, Funny)
You kids today don't know anything that happened before last week. The Italian who invented the telephone was Don Ameche.