{"id":7619,"date":"2014-02-03T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:44:34","slug":"old-att-promotional-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2014\/02\/old-att-promotional-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Old ATT promotional video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found this old ATT promotional video from 1967.&nbsp; It mainly concerns the PSTN wired network reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZAJpionUxJ8\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a mildly hoaky propaganda piece, but we often forget how our modern communications infrastructure is very young.&nbsp; If ATT seems proud of their system, they had a right to be.&nbsp; Prior to electronic communications, you wrote a letter and hoped that it arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also this video: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iBPTM_irIco\" target=\"_blank\">What is the Bell System<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have the time, there are many interesting archive videos on the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ATTTechChannel?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">ATT Tech Channel<\/a>.\u00a0 Be careful, one can spend a lot of time watching these videos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this old ATT promotional video from 1967.&nbsp; It mainly concerns the PSTN wired network reliability. It&#8217;s a mildly hoaky propaganda piece, but we often forget how our modern communications infrastructure is very young.&nbsp; If ATT seems proud of their system, they had a right to be.&nbsp; Prior to electronic communications, you wrote a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2014\/02\/old-att-promotional-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old ATT promotional video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}