IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1971, PhoneMate introduced the ...

Just a decade ago, telephone answering machines were the butt of jokes, the object of scorn. Widely available since the late 1970s, they were just a blip on the consumer scene in the early ’80s. As ...

Broadband is available in most areas these days but there are still places where dialup is the only solution. And of course if you are on the Internet and you get a phone call, the caller gets a busy ...

In contemplating the telephone answering machine, what better place to turn than Los Angeles---a town known for its phones. It's a city that never shuts up, or so the statistics would make you think, ...

AT&T must have taken all the complaints people have had about telephone answering machines over the years and decided to eliminate them all at once. Their new Digital Answering System 1337 right away ...

There should be a special place in heaven for people who do not have telephone answering devices, one of the most annoying mechanisms to be brought forth out of modern technology. Americans will buy ...

Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...