AT&T has announced that “Effective September 2007, Time of Day information service will be discontinued” the LATimes reported today.
As a child I remember being able to call a number and hearing “At the tone, the time will be ____”.
I haven’t used it for what … 40 years? And I never heard of anyone else using it in all that time.
First Timex made inexpensive wrist watches popular and now even the wrist watch is becoming less popular as people just look at their cell phones.
Starting with what must be the worst pun of the day, the AT&T spokesman went on to say…
“Times change,” said John Britton. “In today’s world, there are just too many other ways to get this information. You can look at your cellphone or your computer. You no longer have to pick up the telephone.”
Indeed, time already has stopped in 48 other states, he said. California and Nevada are the two remaining holdouts.
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