Comments on: Put me through to Sir Winston http://web-owls.com/2006/09/20/put-me-through-to-sir-winston/ Searching and Researching Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: politicalguru http://web-owls.com/2006/09/20/put-me-through-to-sir-winston/#comment-796 politicalguru Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:44:56 +0000 http://web-owls.com/2006/09/20/put-me-through-to-sir-winston/#comment-796 Not completely related, but the first Berlin (and Germany) telephone directory was published as a book, with explanations about the subscribers. Unfortunately, not all is available online, only samples: http://www.berliner-telefonbuch-1881.de/ Not completely related, but the first Berlin (and Germany) telephone directory was published as a book, with explanations about the subscribers. Unfortunately, not all is available online, only samples:
http://www.berliner-telefonbuch-1881.de/

]]> By: eiffel http://web-owls.com/2006/09/20/put-me-through-to-sir-winston/#comment-637 eiffel Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:57:40 +0000 http://web-owls.com/2006/09/20/put-me-through-to-sir-winston/#comment-637 Wow, Sigmund Freud is there too! Of course in those days, telemarketers hadn't been invented yet, and most people weren't rich enough to have a phone anyway. But answering machines hadn't been invented either! Perhaps Winston Churchill had a secretary to answer the phone for him. Wow, Sigmund Freud is there too!

Of course in those days, telemarketers hadn’t been invented yet, and most people weren’t rich enough to have a phone anyway.

But answering machines hadn’t been invented either! Perhaps Winston Churchill had a secretary to answer the phone for him.

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