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when the automatic telephone exchange was invented in the 1890s, it was advertised as providing a girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone experience to contrast it with manual telephone exchanges operated by women

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Fun Fact: when the automatic telephone exchange was invented in the 1890s, it was advertised as providing a “girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone” experience to contrast it with manual telephone exchanges operated by women

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