{"id":6184,"date":"2012-06-05T01:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-06-05T01:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:15:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on June 5th, 2012, the most recent update is over it’s 9 years of it’s existence!<\/p>\n

Welcome to my virtual, all digital – to you museum!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m your curator Steven. I live in the 603 Area Code, in the northeast of the US in the state of New Hampshire, in the subruban area just about an hour north of Boston (not including a bad traffic day) where also the home of the first telephone service began.<\/p>\n

I’ve had passion for computers and phones probably since could barely talk. I like voice communications along with electronic communications, because semi human communication is deteriorating thanks to social networks and other mediums destroying the social world we live in. Not to mention cell phones and VOIP phones that make you sound like you’re under water…<\/p>\n

ABOUT THIS SITE<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a number of years, this site was hosted for free on WordPress.com before moving to my own host in 2019. In 2020, the site was transferred to another owner, and due to an undisclosed reason has returned back to me. Prior to the end of 2019, since the June 2012 inception, the site had been highly trafficked on the internet getting nearly 70,000 hits and been frequent on Google searches right on the first tier level on said search terms.<\/strong> The site has not had the same level of traffic despite many attempts to let people know the fun was moved.<\/p>\n

Due to my other engagements in media production, The Museum is now functioning as a historical website with no intentions for much updates for content going forward. Thanks for following<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I don’t consider this a “blog” or “web log”, in fact, this is a very sophisticated website with a lot of data you don’t see (like tags and metadata) organized by category, and seven permanent pages with about five to fifteen sub pages on each subject including a thirty-thousand word Glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The word\u00a0telephony<\/em> refers to the Greek word\u00a0tele<\/em> meaning far away<\/em>\u00a0and phony\u00a0<\/em>referring to voice.\u00a0Despite the word it should\u00a0not\u00a0<\/strong>be pronounced as teley-phony, it should be pronounced as tel-eph-anie or think of it rhyming\u00a0with Stephanie <\/em><\/strong>(to quote a paragraph in a Macintosh scribe\u00a0written by David Pogue back in the day.)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The voice over technology (telephony) historically for the web standards in it’s first twenty years has been very scarce. There are Bell System tribute sites, and there’s those museum sites, and recording sites (for the wrong number or voice mail prompts, etc.) But there isn’t a site where you can find little pictures of schematics of a multi line rotary telephone, to manhole covers, see embed videos of old AT&T films, to the outsides of a central office to a proprietary digital PBX telephone to fire alarm call boxes in the middle of 212 area code all on one site.<\/p>\n

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WHOSE THIS GUY?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m\u00a0your everyman tech guy whose mostly a hardware guy, “the set it and forget it”, Ron Popeil way of managing tech. I’ve tried to do away of dealing or managing technology like children, but still at times have to.<\/p>\n

“Play<\/strong> like a hobbyist, write<\/strong> like a professional, think<\/strong> like a journalist. ” ~ Your Humble curator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have been influenced back when my grandmother leased a Western Electric 554 with I think a beige color. I remember it very well up until one day she brought to a store to get rid of her lease. I collect many terminals and telephones vintage to modern, from analog, to IP, from office phones to smartphones. The site launched in 2012 after having about a couple dozen pictures on a former Flickr account.<\/p>\n

I put a lot of labor because in the 2000s, a lot of the Web didn’t have a lot of technical resources other than vintage telephones. Also I wanted to gather all the information onto one site so anyone from any part of the world or suffers with a disability where going to a museum or even a technical library could be difficult to get to.<\/p>\n

This was the purpose of creating this nearly a decade ago: To gather as much information as possible. A simple term on a search engine can bring you to my site within seconds. This virtual museum isn’t for my happiness unlike other blogs who want to have self-gratification. My gratification is when someone sends me an email or responds with some thoughtful feedback on what I post from my daily run with telephony equipment, facilities or apparatus. If you learn or enjoy this resource, then I’m gratified.<\/p>\n

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Originally posted on June 5th, 2012, the most recent update is over it’s 9 years of it’s existence! Welcome to my virtual, all digital – to you museum! I’m your curator Steven. I live in the 603 Area Code, in… <\/p>\n

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