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The telephone has changed a lot. It started out being made out of people and copper. Then some of the people were removed and replaced with more copper. Then some of the copper was removed and replaced with silicon. For a while, telephones used to speak a language called signaling system 5 which was made out of funky music. If you learned to speak it, you could ask the telephone network to do nice things for you like dial long distance calls for free and it would do them for you because you asked so nicely and were very polite. The telephone company didn't like that very much so they made the telephone speak a different language called signaling system 7. | The telephone has changed a lot. It started out being made out of people and copper. Then some of the people were removed and replaced with more copper. Then some of the copper was removed and replaced with silicon. For a while, telephones used to speak a language called signaling system 5 which was made out of funky [[music]]. If you learned to speak it, you could ask the telephone network to do nice things for you like dial long distance calls for free and it would do them for you because you asked so nicely and were very polite. The telephone company didn't like that very much so they made the telephone speak a different language called signaling system 7. | ||