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small correction: s/is/starts out as/g To the telephone counter-examples in the responses: early telephone users were probably "culty" until the mainstream ado
by shobith 8y ago
small correction: s/is/starts out as/g
To the telephone counter-examples in the responses: early telephone users were probably "culty" until the mainstream adopted it for useful stuff.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> early telephone users were probably "culty" Telephones strapped onto the telegraph network. After that, they were “leased in pairs” [1]. It wasn’t until 1889 that switches were deployed. Only the could these bilateral-only phones begin talking to each other. (This is also when network effects began emerging.) TL; DR Telephones, like most useful technology, established themselves in a small niche and then scaled from that base. Its success in its niche wasn’t driven by zeal, but by usefulness. [1] https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-telephone-alexander-graham-bell-1991380 https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-telephone-alexander...