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Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:05 pm to Rouge
I don't think it really matters what AT&T stands for because their brand and marketing goes with AT*T instead. That's what they want people to know.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:05 pm to Rouge
I've gotten my B.S. and landed a job and don't know what it stands for. College kids don't need to know wtf it stands for! 
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:06 pm to Golfer
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Well the SBC/AT&T unified branding began in the early 2000's... so these college kids were, what? 5-9 years old?
I was a teenager back then and I still had to Google. All I remembered was "American Telecommunications and something," and even then I was wrong about the Telecommunications part.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:07 pm to Rouge
I think the & is for ampersand. Not sure about the rest. Rethink Possible?
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:07 pm to Rouge
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for the record, i am 35 and knew the answer.
Well I feel good then. You are a little older than me and I knew what it was short for. But then I am unreal smart.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:08 pm to Napoleon
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Incorrect, it stands for Assholes Through & Through
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:08 pm to Golfer
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All I'm saying is they've never seen it spelled out anywhere. So unless they went digging into the history of the company, they wouldn't know what it used to stand for.
Yep.
Is this thread an attempt to call college kids nowadays dumb?
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 pm to Napoleon
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BMW was a bonus question on a test in HS once (silly teacher) I got it wrong and put Berlin Motor Works.
Bavarian Motor Werks
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 pm to Cosmo
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I wonder how many know what NASA stands for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:14 pm to Dam Guide
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Bavarian Motor Werks
If you anglicize it I think "werks' should be 'works'...
and before the OP gramps asks, IT&T was International...
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:16 pm to LCA131
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If you anglicize it I think "werks' should be 'works'...
That's how BMW rolls on the American motorcycle t-shirt I have.
But yes, it really should be works. It's like Bayerische Motoren Werke in German if I remember right.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:26 pm to Rouge
American Telephone & Telegraph
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:26 pm to TheDeathValley
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I don't think it really matters what AT&T stands for
It doesn't matter... at all.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:27 pm to Wally Sparks
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Wally Sparks
He did not ask WHAT it stood for. His question called for a number in response. You fail.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:34 pm to LCA131
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He did not ask WHAT it stood for. His question called for a number in response. You fail.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:36 pm to LCA131
Larry, you ever have a party line? 2 longs and a short?
When I was little and would go visit my grandparents out in da kuntry they had one.
It tripped me out to pick up the phone only to hear my uncle from next door having phone sex with my cousin down the street.
Good times.
When I was little and would go visit my grandparents out in da kuntry they had one.
It tripped me out to pick up the phone only to hear my uncle from next door having phone sex with my cousin down the street.
Good times.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:40 pm to Rouge
American Telephone and Telegraph, but I wouldn't look down on anybody who wouldn't know what it stands for (I'm 25, but I tend to read Wikipedia a lot).
Those same 30 college kids probably couldn't tell you what the Bell System even was, or that competitors Verizon and the modern AT&T are leftovers from the old Bell System.
Those same 30 college kids probably couldn't tell you what the Bell System even was, or that competitors Verizon and the modern AT&T are leftovers from the old Bell System.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:43 pm to GetCocky11
I guess I would have been wrong because I thought it stood for Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:44 pm to Rebel
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Larry, you ever have a party line? 2 longs and a short?
I never had one, but I feel old for knowing what this was.
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