La Telecom's story ends up on the web, and with it a piece of Italian history, from the dawn of the 900s to today. Today, just on the day when Naguib Sawiris confirms his interest in buying a stake in the company, was presented in Turin (in the presence of Mayor Piero Fassino and the president of the Telecom Foundation Franco Bernabè) new portal of the Telecom Italia Historical Archive, which collects over a thousand images, 200 documents and over 40 videos.
The Archive, which was born in 1992 as a Sip archive and was immediately recognized as having "significant historical interest" by the Superintendency for Archival Heritage, preserves the documentary heritage of the companies that gradually merged into the Telecom Italia Group, and will be enriched, in 2013, from a new multimedia space.
The oldest documents date back to the end of the XNUMXth century, while the most recent refer to the foundation of Telecom Italia in the XNUMXs. The two main sections of the web archive are the “Guide”, which illustrates its heritage, and "Italy on the phone and beyond", a fascinating overview that tells through images the long history of Italians with the telephone, from its origins to the present day.
And it is precisely the images that, more and better than paper documents, end up telling a further story. And so, by clicking on the portal, we are not faced with the simple history of the various companies that merged into the Group, but something more, a part of Italian history, the picture of our journey towards modernization during the twentieth century.
