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總機接線員 (Switchboard Operators) — Intermediate

The first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut, 1878, was pure chaos. Alexander Graham Bell’s brilliant invention had created an unexpected problem: how do you connect two phones? The initial solution was primitive — teenage boys with attitude problems manning a dozen lines, shouting instructions, pulling cables, and occasionally entertaining themselves by eavesdropping on conversations or simply disconnecting calls for fun.

These early operators were disasters. They fought each other, played pranks on customers, used profanity that would make sailors blush, and treated the whole enterprise as their personal entertainment system. One Hartford exchange manager reported that his boy operators spent more time starting fistfights than connecting calls. The boys had to go.

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