{"id":8388,"date":"2014-01-31T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:16:28","slug":"sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master\/","title":{"rendered":"SBC Buys AT&amp;T; The Learner Becomes the Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-657\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-658\" title=\"AT&amp;T Logos\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Logos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cfeb8__ATT_logos-154x300.gif\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" \/>January 31, 2005<\/p>\n<p>SBC announced that it would purchase\u00a0<a title=\"AT&amp;T Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAT%2526T_Corp.\">AT&amp;T Corp.<\/a> for more than $  16 billion. This completed (maybe) the long and sordid tale of the old AT&amp;T company after their breakup in 1984. SBC, one of the original \u201cbaby bells\u201d, renamed itself AT&amp;T after the merger, confusing nearly everyone in the world as to which company was which anymore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F01%2F31%2Ffirst-ape-into-space%2F\" rel=\"prev\">First Ape into Space<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cfeb8__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/31\/sbc-buys-at-the-learner-becomes-the-master\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 31, 2005 SBC announced that it would purchase\u00a0AT&amp;T Corp. for more than $ 16 billion. This completed (maybe) the long and sordid tale of the old AT&amp;T company after their breakup in 1984. SBC, one of the original \u201cbaby bells\u201d, renamed itself AT&amp;T after the merger, confusing nearly everyone in the world as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4142,3120,414,3119,3121],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-att","tag-becomes","tag-buys","tag-learner","tag-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}