20 Outdated Occupations That Have Bitten the Dust

Switchboard operator

“Operator, please connect this call” was a frequently uttered phrase back when phone companies had manual switchboards. The operators, who were mostly women, inserted a phone plug into the relevant jack to connect a call.

Automated switchboards were widely adopted from the 1960s onwards, and by the 1980s the profession had all but vanished.

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