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Three bits of old-world fun:

Look up your telephone exchange at the Telephone EXchange Name Project. Then you can tell people your phone number using the code words that went out of fashion in the 1950s, e.g. PEnnsylvania 6-5000.
This site has a compound retro-cool factor. Not only does it describe something retro-cool… it is, itself, retro cool. Its list of official “Ma Bell” exchange names was published on the web in 1996. Had it been online a few years earlier, there wouldn’t have been a “line” to be “on.” (No, nobody remembers pre-1994 USENET but me.)

See the “future we were promised” in the exhibit of futurist and illustrator Art Radebaugh. Especially appealing are the hip cityscapes in the “Lost Portfolio” exhibit. One of those may end up on my wall at some point.

And just to round out the trio, here’s the Google homepage from 1998. Note: it still works!