In today’s story, a woman lives at a hostel, and another woman who lives at the hostel came close to destroying her phone.

I always assumed they had something to do with the telephone system, and that’s right, but I had no idea how old they really are and how they’ve evolved. Turns out the venerable plug goes back ...

But the basic design of the modular plug was set. New phone designs like the Trimline phone, where the handset contained the dial or keypad, would be among the first phones to use the new cords ...