From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 03:19:20 +0800
To: Daniel Salber <daniel.salber@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: Minitel "saved" by hackers?
Message-ID: <199607121324.JAA26628@unix.asb.com>
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On 12 Jul 96 at 14:07, Daniel Salber wrote:
[..]
> Well, sorry if it is. That's what I read in a book about the early history
> of telephone. I don't have the reference handy right now, though.

Understandable.

> BUT: how do you explain that from the original conception (using the
> telephone for broadcasting), the telephone came to be a one-to-one
> communication tool ? Even if the implementation allowed it, someone had to
> think of it, right ?

Bell thought of the idea orig. as a broadcaster.  Then somehow when 
it was set up he or someone else in AT&T did that. If I recall (no 
refs handy) it had to do with the telegraph being (sort of) 
point-to-point...

Bell used to tour the vaudville circuit showing off the telephone. I 
think the idea emerged during that time... during such shows of tech 
(common at the time) there was a Q&A from the audience.

Rob


> 
> Thanks for the clarification anyway.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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