Indiana University Media School: Students Study Switchboard Phone System in Internet Ecosystems Course
April 08, 2026
April 08, 2026
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, April 8 -- Indiana University Media School issued the following news:
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Students study switchboard phone system in Internet Ecosystems course
Abby Whited
Located within the fourth stack of Franklin Hall sits an old switchboard phone system, its origins and history relatively unknown. Believed to have been donated by the Smithville Phone Company to the university decades ago, the switchboard used to sit in the Radio-TV . . .
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Students study switchboard phone system in Internet Ecosystems course
Abby Whited
Located within the fourth stack of Franklin Hall sits an old switchboard phone system, its origins and history relatively unknown. Believed to have been donated by the Smithville Phone Company to the university decades ago, the switchboard used to sit in the Radio-TV . . .