by
Rob Chrisman
on
March 20 2012, 8:07 AM
In the old days, when rotary dial telephones roamed the earth, and it took more time to dial a 8 or 9 or 0 than it did a 1 or 2 or 3, area codes were set up accordingly. (That is why the big cities in the 1940's, population density-wise, all had the small...