#telephone

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. ↗

— Steve Case

#cartridge #essentially #game #idea #interactive

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#designed #luxury #owned #people #tax

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own