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AT&T Long Lines 2024 Sep 9
How did a long distance phone call work in the era before satellites and fiber optics? AT&T Long Lines is how: a series of microwave repeaters linking together our country. And as they were built at the height of the Cold War and carried critical military information as well as regular phone calls (and television) their remnants serve as another of the many monuments left in our country to the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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