[thedailymail]

Hijacking this post for some history trivia. The first patent on a rotary dial was granted to a guy named Almon Brown Strowger, a mortician who had become convinced that the wife of one of his rival morticians was using her position as a telephone switch operator to reroute calls intended for Strowger's funeral home to her own husband's, thus causing the loss to Strowger's business of several valuable cadavers. Early ad copy for his device bragged that it was a "girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch

[aeonik]

The first big win in the Net Neutrality movement! Brings a tear to my eye.