alt Hacker NewsIn Northern California the number corresponded to POP-CORN, so if you wanted to know the time you called popcorn, and got a lovely lady's voice: "At the tone, the time will be...". The POP prefix was a shortcut to the phone company.
In Northern California the number corresponded to POP-CORN, so if you wanted to know the time you called popcorn, and got a lovely lady's voice: "At the tone, the time will be...". The POP prefix was a shortcut to the phone company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_presence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names#Stand...
411 Directory Assistance in 1978 https://youtu.be/UpsGpZ7wi9k?si=gSKP2K7WGPn-cbBj&t=60