March is National On-Hold Month. And yes, it is recognition for the all the times we have been put on hold... Yeah! (picture confetti falling) Very corny thing to be recognizing but I thought it would be fun to look at the history of our phone system. Like so many other things we forget how different the original technology was from what we use today. It wasn't that long ago I was dragging the phone into the closest closet for privacy because I was tethered to the wall by a cord. Now landlines without a portable phone is almost a thing of the past, and almost all homes have cordless phones.

So Happy National On-Hold Month!

One of my baby pictures for Flashback Thursday.

Flashback Thursday Looking At The History of Phones

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