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Phones and homosexuality: the early history

The first words spoken over a phone by Alexander Graham Bell:

Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.

On early phones, a conversation could be mistaken for a variant of the common blow job:

Having a real conversation, for example, required rapidly transferring the telephone between mouth and ear.

Early protocols were similarly gay:

You should begin by saying, “Hulloa,” and when done talking, the book says, you should say, “That is all.”

The other person should respond, “O.K.”

Original article on NYTimes

BBC’s media player goes up to 11

Must be a British thing.

Why don’t you just make ten louder, and make ten the top number, and make that a little louder?

…These go to eleven.