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The BellSouth Telecommunications Building, located at 675 West Peachtree Street in Atlanta, was built in 1980 by the Atlanta-based firm FABRAP, in conjunction with Skidmore Owings and Merrill of New York. It served as headquarters for both Southern Bell and BellSouth. In 2006 BellSouth was absorbed by AT&T, and today the building is part of the AT&T Midtown Center.
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A BellSouth service van contains installation and repair equipment for such products as local and long-distance telephone service, Internet service, and satellite television. BellSouth offered these services in Georgia from 1984 until its merger with AT&T in 2006.
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EarthLink, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, is headquartered in downtown Atlanta. The company was founded in California in 1994 and merged with the Atlanta-based provider MindSpring in 2000.
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In 1994 Charles Brewer founded MindSpring, an Internet service provider, in Atlanta. Five years later the company, with more than 1 million subscribers, introduced high-speed Internet access to customers in Georgia and Alabama. MindSpring merged with EarthLink in 2000.
Courtesy of Charles Brewer
In 1994 Sky Dayton founded the Internet service provider EarthLink in Los Angeles, California. EarthLink partnered with a variety of other companies, including Microsoft, Charter Communications, and Macintosh, before merging with MindSpring, an Atlanta-based provider, in 2000.
Courtesy of Helio
The equipment room at MindSpring, an Atlanta-based Internet service provider, is pictured in 1995, one year after its founding. Before merging with EarthLink in 2000, the company introduced high-speed cable modem access and digital subscriber line services to customers.
Courtesy of Charles Brewer
During the first half of the twentieth century, Ellijay Telephone Company operators connected calls manually with electric switchboards.
Courtesy of Ellijay Telephone Company
