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+title = "The TNI is dead, long live the TNI"
+author = ["George M Jones"]
+publishDate = 2024-04-02T00:00:00-04:00
+lastmod = 2024-04-02T17:56:49-04:00
+tags = ["geek", "100DaysToOffload"]
+categories = ["blog"]
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+Today was the day I removed the TNI (Telephone Network Interface) from
+my house.   The last vestiges of our land line. The last output of a
+once vast network.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/tni2.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 1: </span>\"This Phone Is Property of Ohio Bell\" by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0" width="200px" >}}
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+There used to be vast infrastructure (the Telephone Network) that got
+phone calls from place to place. I remember sometime around 1969 (cub
+scouts?  Elementary school?) touring the local AT&amp;T building that
+housed rows and rows of mechanical switches that routed phone calls in
+our neighborhood.  For those with an eye for it, those buildings are
+still everywhere to be seen.   Square.  Few windows.  Brick.   In
+virtually every neighborhood.
+
+There was the Microwave relay tower near my grandfathers farm. Part
+of a nationwide network that supported the "Long lines", where AT&amp;T
+made it's money until Judge Green broke it up, costing the world Bell
+Labs (creator of the Transistor and Unix) in the process.
+
+I recently stayed at a friends house, vintage 1920s. It has a little
+alcove in the wall just off the kitchen that was undoubtedly for "the
+phone". Growing up we had "the kitchen phone", and one on my dad's
+desk. When it rang sometimes you had to dash to the other room to answer.
+
+Phones like the one pictured above could be thrown down the basement
+stairs onto a concrete floor and survive. Not that I would know. Bell
+ENGINEERED their hardware.
+
+I'm glad we have moved beyond that technology, but it made the world
+move for over a hundred years.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/tni.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 2: </span>\"The TNI about to be removed\" by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0" width="200px" >}}
+
+Read "[Exploding the Phone](https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280)" for an insightful and amusing history of
+the phone system, phone phreaks, the rise of hacker culture, and how
+Steve Jobs and Woz got their start selling blue boxes in the Berkeley
+dorms so students could "steal" long distance calls (my father's
+roommate got around the high cost of long distance in the 50's by using
+ham radio to "phone home").   The world has changed.
+
+{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/explode.jpg" caption="<span class=\"figure-number\">Figure 3: </span>\"[Exploding the Phone](https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280)\"\" by Phil Lapsley" width="200px" >}}
+
+\#59 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, <https://100daystooffload.com/>

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+Today was the day I removed the TNI (Telephone Network Interface) from
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+There used to be vast infrastructure (the Telephone Network) that got
+phone calls from place to place. I remember sometime around 1969 (cub
+scouts?  Elementary school?) touring the local AT&T building that
+housed rows and rows of mechanical switches that routed phone calls in
+our neighborhood.  For those with an eye for it, those buildings are
+still everywhere to be seen.   Square.  Few windows.  Brick.   In
+virtually every neighborhood.
+
+
+There was the Microwave relay tower near my grandfathers farm. Part
+of a nationwide network that supported the "Long lines", where AT&T
+made it's money until Judge Green broke it up, costing the world Bell
+Labs (creator of the Transistor and Unix) in the process.
+
+I recently stayed at a friends house, vintage 1920s. It has a little
+alcove in the wall just off the kitchen that was undoubtedly for "the
+phone". Growing up we had "the kitchen phone", and one on my dad's
+desk. When it rang sometimes you had to dash to the other room to answer.
+
+Phones like the one pictured above could be thrown down the basement
+stairs onto a concrete floor and survive. Not that I would know. Bell
+ENGINEERED their hardware.
+
+I'm glad we have moved beyond that technology, but it made the world
+move for over a hundred years.
+
+    #+caption: "The TNI about to be removed" by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0
+    #+attr_html: :width 200px
+    file:images/tni.jpg
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+
+Read "[[https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280][Exploding the Phone]]" for an insightful and amusing history of
+the phone system, phone phreaks, the rise of hacker culture, and how
+Steve Jobs and Woz got their start selling blue boxes in the Berkeley
+dorms so students could "steal" long distance calls (my father's
+roommate got around the high cost of long distance in the 50's by using
+ham radio to "phone home").   The world has changed.
+
+    #+caption: "[[https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280][Exploding the Phone]]"" by Phil Lapsley
+    #+attr_html: :width 200px
+    file:images/explode.jpg
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+#59 of #100DaysToOffload take 3.1, https://100daystooffload.com/
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