Area codes are now more of a status symbol than a practicality
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Area codes were first established so that people could make phone calls without the involvement or help of human operators. Today, they aren't as important as they once were.
Not too long ago, it took the help of an operator and some patience to make a phone call. Ashlyn Messier is a writer for Fox News Digital.
At a time when phone calls were being placed without enough operators to connect them quickly, a new method was necessary. This is how area codes came about.
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