This week we’re replaying some of our favorite episodes that were anything but phoned in.

Two crank telephones in the collection of the Telecommunications Museum in Whyalia, Australia. (Photo by South Australian History Network via Flickr/Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/btogt4)

In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines

In 1900, three towns in Indiana used fence wire as makeshift telephone lines. Some of these ingenious systems ran for decades.