One of the coolest things Kirk Hamilton and I saw at the 2016 Game Developers Conference was Mike Lazer-Walker’s game Hello, Operator, which uses a real switchboard that he bought on eBay and turned ...

Got a good story about an interaction—surprising, sexy, bizarre—with a telephone operator at a call center? Send it to callersticketcontest@thestranger.com by 5 pm today. The writer of the winning ...

To make a phone call 100 years ago, you had to tell an operator the number of the person to call. Phone numbers in Bloomington ranged from 1 to 1317. The operator connected the call by plugging a ...