OUR AREA. OUR CODE. In the mid-20th century the area code phone system came into effect. It was designed by the Bell Telephone company to respond to the country’s rapidly expanding telephone network in order to automate (Direct Distance) dialing and to be able to continue to capitalize on long distance phone calls. But, since the flattening of the national phone grid, area codes have shed their monetary worth and have gained cultural value. They now serve as a way to connect us to a physical place and serve to refine our perceptions of who we are. At the start of 2002, the (219) area code that had served the northern third of Indiana since the1950s was divided into three regions. This is when northeast Indiana (including Fort Wayne) was designated with the (260) area code. This change was necessitated due to the high demand for phone numbers from the development of cellular phones, fax machines, pagers, computer modems and other telecommunications devices; the change was a way to s
OUR AREA. OUR CODE. In the mid-20th century the area code phone system came into effect. It was designed by the Bell Telephone company to respond to the country’s rapidly expanding telephone network in order to automate (Direct Distance) dialing and to be able to continue to capitalize on long distance phone calls. But, since the flattening of the national phone grid, area codes have shed their monetary worth and have gained cultural value. They now serve as a way to connect us to a physical place and serve to refine our perceptions of who we are. At the start of 2002, the (219) area code that had served the northern third of Indiana since the1950s was divided into three regions. This is when northeast Indiana (including Fort Wayne) was designated with the (260) area code. This change was necessitated due to the high demand for phone numbers from the development of cellular phones, fax machines, pagers, computer modems and other telecommunications devices; the change was a way to s
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