AT&T Oddball facts
In 1909 AT&T stages a race between a telegraph message and this, in order to prove a point about the technologies supperiority?
What is a carrier pigeon?
He invented phones. We sell them now.
Alexander Graham Bell
LNP
Line Number Port
This is the name of the iconic AT&T building in New York City designed by architect Philip Johnson
What is the AT&T Building
LHF
Low Hanging Fruit
The lab that the Unix OS and C programming language was were invented in
Bell Labs
Invented the first touch tone phone
What is AT&T
AT&T
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
This legendary graphic designer designed the AT&T Globe
Who is Saul Bass
DCOT
Double Click On That
This is the name of the world’s first active communications satellite, launched by AT&T in 1962?
What is Telstar
While Thomas Edison popularized using the word "Hello" when ansering a phone, Bell preferred this word
Ahoy!
GPON
Gigabit Passive Optical Network
Ma Bell was the nickname of what system?
Bell System
MTN
Move The Needle
In 1964, AT&T scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, using a Bell Labs antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey, accidentally discovered the BLANK —evidence for the Big Bang. They won the Nobel Prize for this work.
cosmic microwave background radiation
The first words spoken by telephone were these words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant.
What is, “Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you.”
OVALS
One View Address Location System
In the 1970's and 80s, this was AT&Ts personal and interactive slogan
What is Reach out and Touch Someone
TLPITT
The Long Pole In The Tent
Ray Tomlinson, invnted what for emails, while working for BBN, a company that collaborated with AT&T on early networking technologies.
What is the @ symbol
The year that A&T made the first transcontinental phone call
What is 1915. We'll also accept 1927 as different AI's provide different answers to this question.
PRISM
Primary Repository for Information Systems Management
The year that AT&T was formed (under another phone company)
AT&T was incorporated as a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company in 1885
CYGBOS
Can You Go Back One Slide