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Before smartphones, landline telephones were the way most people kept in touch. And until direct dialing became common, a switchboard operator's assistance was often needed to help with long-distance ...

Telephone Operator (1937) is a romantic drama film directed by Scott Pembroke. The film revolves around Helen Molly, a telephone operator who coordinates communication and emergency responses ...

The rise of generative AI — and ChatGPT in particular — has raised a lot of alarm bells in some industries worried that the technology could make many humans’ jobs obsolete. And those concerns are ...

In Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegon Days," there's a passage that describes the fictional Minnesota town's telephone operator, who was the go-to person to hear about news, gossip and goings-on around ...

A reunion of Maine switchboard operators highlights the challenges of making a phone call more than 50 years ago and what it was like to handle... Telephone operators of another era gather to ...