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From: Dan_Bloch@transarc.com
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Subject: Area Code History Request
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There've been a lot of items recently about area code 714 splitting to
909, and comments about how rapidly Southern California is going
through area codes.

I've started wondering just what the pattern has been over the last
thirty years.  Do any of you historians out there have, or know where
I could find, a chronological list of area code assignments?  (i.e.
what the original area codes were, and what year each new one was
added?)  Or if this doesn't exist, just a list or map of the original
NANP would be interesting.

Thanks,


Dan Bloch   dan@transarc.com


[Moderator's Note: This is a job for Carl Moore <cmoore@brl.mil>. He
has loads of information on this, and perhaps will write an article
for the Digest or at the very least send you some information.   PAT]