You never knew what kind of machine greeting you'd hear when you called someone in the 80s. That's what made it so fun! The new "Star Wars-stricken culture" had not only begun to normalize the robotic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1971, PhoneMate introduced the ...

Martin Schneider of the website "Dangerous Minds" reviews a series of pre-recorded outgoing messages made by Radio Shack in the 1980s when home... Radio Shack's Answering Machine Messages Were Hip To ...

Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

Broadband is available in most areas these days, but there are still places where dialup is the only solution. And, of course, if you are on the Internet and you get a phone call, they get a busy ...