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A visitor at the Connections Museum works the kind of switchboard system that first connected American phone users. Brian Mann/NPR hide caption

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Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone

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The email account that journalists used to use to correspond with Twitter's communications team is now automatically responding to messages with a poop emoji. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption

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Workers remove the final New York City pay phone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. Despite the fanfare, there are still some pay phones standing in the city. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Who Gets 5G — And Who Gets Left Behind — Has Some Worried About Digital Inequality

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This artist's-concept illustration depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft which will carry a deep-space laser communications system. JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin/NASA hide caption

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Live High Definition Video From Mars? NASA Is Getting Ready

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Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us

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