Michael Regilio
speaker
2,071 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were actually necessity.
See, in the early days of the telephone, people used party lines, meaning multiple households shared the same connection.
And people would get freaked out.
Critics were warning that eavesdropping would become normal, which I'm guessing it probably did if you could hear what the neighbors were talking about on the phone.
People claimed that the telephone would rot the brain and shorten attention spans.
Some people argued that these new rapid disembodied conversations overstimulated the mind and made people impatient with slower forms of communication.
There was even an etiquette manual in 1902 that warned that communication by telephone should not be considered private.
People worried about constant surveillance.
I had no idea that party lines like that were still around in the 90s.
Yeah, no, I mean, it's true.
And people were super freaked out by this telephone.
Many religious leaders argued that the telephone encouraged idle chatter and temptation, especially between young men and women.
One Boston clergyman warned that young women using the telephone would be exposed to unseen male voices.
Look, I don't know a single guy that just gets a random nude photo sent to his phone.
But every woman I know has received unsolicited Richard pics.
So, yeah, I'm not sure that.
Women were ever the problem in this equation.
No, no.
Yeah, I know.
I remember it well.
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