For those of you old enough to remember party lines when using your telephones, you could not just pick up the phone and start talking, as there were likely two others on the same ‘line,’ until those talking would hang up their phones. So, you didn’t want to begin sharing any personal information with these two strangers. A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. Fast forward to 2024. The US
