Another patent battle for Android

Posted Nov 14, 2013 13:20 UTC (Thu) by freemars (subscriber, #4235)
In reply to: Another patent battle for Android by dlang
Parent article: Another patent battle for Android

And further back, in the 1950s and 1960s (if I recall), you could get much cheaper rural telephone rates by getting a party line with up to 7 other nearby homes -- each phone number had a unique ring pattern that said "this call is for you". (We never had an 8-party line but my childhood home had a 2-party line.)