When the first phone lines were installed there were no phone numbers.
The switch operator would just connect you to the person you wanted to
speak to. When the telephone systems started expanding, the phone
companies migrated to using telephone numbers. These first telephone
switchboards started operating in 1894 and ever since then people became
infatuated with their telephone numbers. But the time has come to
realise that a telephone number is meaningless and no effort must be
made to retain it or not change it.
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