ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?message-squaremessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down11
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minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up143·edit-21 day agoAlmon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers. So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 day agoCame here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-21 day ago Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener? Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?
minus-squarethekidxp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoQI could be right, I couldn’t have recalled that fact but I also learned it and I watch QI but not lateral. Maybe I should be checking it out though
Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers.
So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.
Came here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?
Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?
QI could be right, I couldn’t have recalled that fact but I also learned it and I watch QI but not lateral.
Maybe I should be checking it out though