The iPhone7 goes on sale Friday. The proliferation of cellphones and now smartphones, required an expansion of area codes to meet the demand. Here is a look at the history of area codes in ...

A black desktop telephone. The earpiece tone. The clickety-click of a rotary dial. Those were the sights and sounds of an era in telephone communication that was still in its infancy 60 years ago.

Raise your hand if you wondered as a child if the number of phone numbers would ever be exhausted. We're not there yet, but a story in this newspaper Friday brought the news that within the next year ...