hmm, sorry, i'm going to make Bell rims now, you can't stop me Saul

#OnThisDay in 1883, a telephone exchange started in Seattle with 90 subscirbers. Henry Yesler reportedly asked whether or not "one could swear over that thing." www.historylink.org/File/875

unhinged patent filing for the no. 5 crossbar. there’s over 100 pages of just this.

the most important step in setting up my new toolbox

current mood

New treasure get!

We are packing up the JKL Museum switch room for shipment to Seattle, which means that I’m spending the day crawling through the ceiling.

one of our coziest girls, in her natural habitat

Some doofus in the youtube comments section was big mad that the museum's account has pronouns listed. I didn't even know we did, but now I'm keeping them there, just to be a tar-pit to catch the next asshole who wanders through. Trans rights are human rights, motherfucker.

girlfriends, on the other hand, have teletypes.

Oh yeah, Western Electric? Tell me more about how you don’t make washing machines and toasters.

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nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

telephony

HEY IT'S THE CONNECTIONS MUSEUM ON BLUESKY They're the ones with the amazing 3ESS telephone exchange that I discovered on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=k865... Give them a follow!

Also, I know we haven't released any new videos in *ages*. I'm really sorry. I haven't stopped traveling since June. I've got a script written though, so filming should start soon.

Heyo, it's us, the telephone weirdos. Also on the fediverse tacobelllabs.net/@connections