Jurassic Age of Telecommunications and the Rise of Telephone over the Internet and Google

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The Stone Age

British Telecom was owned by the Government.

AT&T provided 91% of the telecoms service in the US. It had over 1 million employees and the largest analogue network in the world.

There were NO CELLPHONES.
Although some automobiles were equipped with "ship-to-shore" like radio telephones.

High Speed Data transmission was 2400 bits per second.

Very High Speed Data transmission was 9600 bits per second.

You were not a "real" company unless you had a telex address.

London, the world's most international city, had a dialling code of 01.

The World Wide Web would not be invented for 11 more years.