Masking Reality: Providing false numbers for privacy or security Story from, Jamila Yunusa SULEIMAN. Telephones were first introduced in 1877-1878 with the creation of telephone lines and switchboards leading up to almost 49,000 telephones being utilized shortly thereafter. Since then, phones have become widely available and accepted as one of our primary means of communication today. Mobile phones being the most popularly used phones due to its multiple functions and durability. A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a subscriber by their service provider and serves as an address...