Research - 1950 - 2000
Communication: 1950: No internet with online shopping and knowledge, no text messaging, no skype, how did they manage to talk to friends and family in the 1950's? Letters. Telephone - Was available, but very few people had it in 1950. To make any call you had to go through the Operator at the local Exchange. Most phone numbers were just 3 digits, so you'd pick up the phone, wait for the Operator to say "Good morning, number please" and reply with whatever, such as Tonbridge 387. At first the phones were of Bakelite, very heavy but thankfully very loud, you'd not miss a call unless you lived in an enormous house. These were replaced with Plastic phones , but one thing for years seem to remain common place - the cord which after time became coiled up. This led to the inevitable answering of the call and pulling the telephone of the table. (Source) 1960: Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) was introduced in the mid-1960s, allowing people t...





















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