1. The Significance of Telephone Networks as Used for Broadcasting Original Content and Social Networking Before the Internet and WWW Karen Niemla ULM STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2011 Wednesday May 4 th 2011

2. Web 2.0, Web 1.0…

5. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

6. Usenet, Web 1.0, etc…

9. At its peak, Dial-A-Joke averaged 2,000 calls per day. It became the single most frequently called telephone number in the entire Bay Area, and on more than one occasion caused such switching snarls that the phone company asked him to shut it down Malone, Infinite Loop

11. TNTs Pirates of Silicon Valley, 1999

14. $50 rent from the phone company

15. We dont care. We dont have to. Were the Phone Company. NBC

16. VS

17. user EastBayAnt

19. Phone Pheaks

25. dialajoke.us FLUKE

27. OK, This is PhunPhone production number 40 taped December 14th 1975 air January 5 1976 and it's take one. We hope... hot phones we could get busted, thats why not

28. OK, This is PhunPhone production number 40 taped December 14th 1975 air January 5 1976 and it's take one. We hope... hot phones we could get busted, thats why not

33. The social part

37. Evan Doorbell, 1970s Gwen sounds like a nice girl. I don't think I ever ended up meeting her. There was some talk about getting together the whole gang in Salisbury Park, but that required parental transportation units and I don't recall that I was able to acquire one. ?

38. Evan Doorbell, 1970s Many of the persons involved are pseudonymous Less than legal activity Harder to interview ?

39. Al Bernay Or,Al Diamond Passed away in 2008 Extremely hard to interview

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