This is a microblog of all the changes to the test host of The Museum of Telephony for long term content editing, and revising before returning it back to clickford.net/telephony by the end of CY 2025, acting in an archived basis. Of nearly 500 posts over a span of 8 years on WordPress.com, it was much needed to take the time to go through the content, clean it up, separate modern tech, seperate opinions, and trying to keep it a baseline of generic voice based communications. I am stripping out the biases of enterprise technology, the biases of specific vendors (I wish they could rot to hell) and other things.

The versioning structure is “0” being alpha or beta, the first trailing period is the “major” update, and the 2nd trailing period is the minor reason (often slight changes to the previous update in less than  a 7 day period.

Version 0.8.1 (” “)

Under 100 posts have been re published, more than 500 to go! This will go into Fall of 2025 into Winter of 2026 at the latest.

Version 0.8.0 (September 13th, 2025)

ON SECURITY. I am ashamed to be part of a community where the audience (and other competing content creators) either over carpmentalizes or indirectly endorses atrocity. as standard practice for more than a decade to remember the atrocities of September 11th, 2001, yet another well-known (at least for Generation Z politicos) political figure was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday. Other niche content creators stopped regularly scheduled content to reflect on when will the insanity end. Others who seem to be American based, hate this country.

Effective September 12th, the Tipline to the FBI as well as the well known 1-800-525-5555 (the latter number being more just on the realm of emergency services numbers) was added into the Glossary as 2025 we are so f-cked up in society

WHILE WE ARE ON THAT SUBJECT, LET ME SPEAK ABOUT HISTORICAL THREATS: The Museum of Telephony going back to the WordPress days has been under siege by particularly male incels (short for involuntarily celibate), you know men who choose not to f-ck with heterosexual women because they simply hate them. In August of 2016, this site was “doxxed” as well as my entire digital footprint which extended into other platforms that wasn’t advertised directly under my name and likeness in the name to “get help” in a passive agressive way. The platform? It’s K— F—- (replace the respective dashes and fill it with the respective letters. They started to build a digital dossier against me in April 2016 (per to my WordPress referral traffic, then they went all nuclear. They waited until I got wind of it then took a “break from social media” but then continued to find some other stuff that they found from other social networking platforms I wasn’t really active on and were obsessing on me from 2014 to the doxxing situation of August. I was recommended by support staff to not press charges because I put myself out there, so I am supposed to take it (Law enforcement doesn’t oppose online harassment or “doxxing” I guess.  Can’t trust New Hampshire.

The hate was always there, in fact one directed the hate to perdiem using the f-slur to me and them. I never thought telephony would have the worse people than in Information Technology but being in my mid 20s in 2012, I was so naive.

The Acceptable Usage Policies is going to be renamed Code of Conduct enforced with reporting any offenders to Law Enforcement. Concurrently, new information security practices will be done to protect it digitally. I can’t afford security and the local law enforcement agency is very selective of who’s an offender. Given this audience (at least on the Facebook side being over 60, male and white based in the Southern states) that’s what my law enforcement agency “protects” before anyone else.

Politically aside, let’s take the rest of this change log into a moment of silence of an imperfect and fallible figure in right wing politics of Charlie Kirk and remember the 24th anniversary of the horrible atrocities in New York, D.C. and Penn and all the victims that hit virtually every state in the union that fateful day.

Version 0.7.0 (August 13th, 2025)

Telephony 101 has been published for public consumption

PhunCo! Results -Success! Came across a scrapped virtualized machine of FreePBX, changed the  configuration for public facing Internet and it has worked against legacy Mitel SIP, Aastra and awaiting Poly/com and Grandstream testing. If you wanna connect, hit me up in the sign up form!

Version 0.6.2 (August 4th, 2025)

PhunCo: various issues where I screwed up the Asterisk instance, now I am running it off a FreePBX instance. An updated page will follow. The focus on testing equipment will be Grandstream, Polycom and maybe Linksys/Cisco to get an average audience.

Will be sorting out older posts and be republishing them.

PS to Version 0.6.1 (Updated August 4th)

Forgot to mention The YouTube channel has been rechristened, you can see the revised YouTube channel here

Version 0.6.1 (July 15th, 2025)

Still reeling from depression, imposter syndrome, etc. The whole idea of building PhunCo was to avoid a passive community. Likes and follows really don’t help justice in a world of a growing epidemic not of a coronavirus but isolation.  Like any of you folks care.

PhunCo: ISP Vendor took down the network for a planned upgrade on July 10th, it went out several times during peak hours around 9 to 11 ET.  Will our Business Class service rates go down? I gotta sweet talk the sales by February as the 2 year expires. How can I sweet talk them for this community that requires a Static IP for ingress Internet? Not to mention the server was disconnected for a week before that. Just trying to do a better job at testing and monitoring performance.

On Saturday the 12th, I received a Ubiquiti rack router, while they work nice in small SMEs, they are a PITA to manage. And finding an extra virtual machine to run the Ubiquiti Network Server is not that easy to find on an already tight infrastructure.

Due to feeling ab/used, I didn’t update the site for the last month trying to find community IRL.

Version 0.5.1 (May 30th, 2025)

• PhunCo: Initial Internet tests showed the SIP signaling (the text messages that triggers the phone to ring, or send message waiting signals) worked perfectly. I bounded it to a public facing domain, and it worked, however the voice and or video signal, the Real Time Protocol or RTP is being blocked by the firewalls. This leads to the “dead-air” the phones will give a timer of the call, but there is no content as the content is blocked.

Working on using different firewalls to see which would work the best.

Version 0.5.x (May 28th, 2025)

• Tweaks to enhance and empathize the My Collection
• About page is tweaked for clarity of the identity
• Terms of Service and Acceptable Usage Policies along with a generic Privacy Policy to be drafted (MY PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR STOCK!)
• Images are limited because of the temporary hosting

Version 0.4.1 (” “)

In March, the re-integration of the Instagram and Facebook page worked and posts out of Insta gets posted into Facebook.

Version 0.4.x (April 8th, 2025)

While I was at my local Starbucks underneath a snowglobe, and a cute Barista not engaging in my touch typing and looking at her appropriately, I returned the infamous multi part Glossary with color codes to separate the different audiences. There is a proposition to separate the Glossary into three different groups

Warning: pictures will not be restored until the WordPress URL is relegated back to clickford.net/telephony because that requires renaming it’s aliases or URLs.

PhunCo had a problem with the baremetal hypervisor and attempts to expose it on the internet is on the 2nd attempt.

Version 0.3.6 (” “)

Attempted to get Forms to function to introduce PhunCo – the private telephony service to the trusted followers of TMOT – a go-live date is still in the works.

Version 0.3.5 (” “)

The entire WordPress site linking to clickford.net/telephony has been purged including it’s backups! Hopefully I had downloaded a copy before I realized that was part of the database, but it was buggy anyways. and no significant loss of data (if that!)

This URL will be in holding to migrate back once everything here is all-ready to rock and roll back when that time comes!)

Version 0.3.0 (02-20-2025)

• Pictures are not “lost”, they’re misplaced. Lots of dead images were downloaded from the original WordPress.com host, but then didn’t redirect the images to the new host. This may happen again when I migrate back to the proper URL. Developed a quick workflow in the GUI editor to get things back on ASAP
• For all the images that have been found, the My Collection section and tag has been reposted to it’s original date
• Some Telephony 101 has been reposted
• And… my favorite “the voice of Voicemail” (well not so much in 2025) has been reposted.
• Instagram relaunch planned by the end of the month
• In the My Collection page, it was originally pasted from Pages, pushing a Helvetica through device that has it installed. When testing a Windows 10 machine with Chrome, the font was subsisted. These grids will be repasted with Verdana, to please the two major operating systems. If you use Linux or another workstation, then the chances of you liking plain text is a you-issue and your eyes have already gazed over with my artistic explanation.
• Links is being a diva, since I am not trained in Gutenberg…

Version 0.2.0 (01-08-2025)

• Removed all posts, and reimported them. Missing 2019 to present, will find another way to reincorporate them.
• All comments from 2012-2019 have been reinstated from the original XML code from WordPress.com
• Various public-facing low res photos have been uploaded for future use (DO NOT USE THESE FOR STOCK OR EBAY PHOTOS!)
• My Collection hard page updated
• Individual posts from My Collection (it also is a section too) has been updated with repairs to “broken images” linking to TMOT’s old WordPress.com paths
• Focusing on fixing some of the broken Metadata
• Update from 0.1, on January 7th, the Facebook fan-page to TMOT was “activated” and is treated by Meta almost as a Facebook profile (previously went to “unpublished” under the old Pages system)

TEST site inception 1/07/2025 (version 0.1)

• created a revised My Collection with cell formats
• added a collection of Switching
• Focus on the new website is my collection
• Removing all references of enterprise PBX and VOIP, and redirecting it my personal site
• Glossary is not published (yet)