ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhat's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?message-squaremessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square73linkfedilink
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 months agoAlmon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers. So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoCame here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months ago Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener? Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?
Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers.
So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.
Came here to comment this. Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?
Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?