How well you remember also depends on your age. Did you dial via rotary or keypad? Rotary you really have it baked in, how many mis-spins to get a number dialed on rotary. 🤣😵💫
Rage-dialing a rotary phone just didn't have the same satisfaction of banging those old-school industrial-strength (indestructible short of a ball peen hammer) phone buttons....
So, Big bell had to supply the phones. Free then rent or something weird like that. They did not want have to replace broken equipment. Hence the indestructible phone that Nokia took to an art form.
Yep, I knew about this. I remember when it became a Thing that you could actually buy the phones, and that's when the great cheapening/loss of indestructibility occurred. I want to say this was mid to late 80s?
I had rotary, and then push button rotary. Parents bought a new phone but didnt want to pay for dial tone. LMAO!
My kids always asked "why do you say hello when you can see who it is on your phone?' - Had to tell them in the old days there were party lines and no way of knowing who was calling until you said "Hello" to know the connection went through. I follow that up with "I had to travel through snow and bad weather to a place called a library and use something called the Dewey Decimal system to do homework. Now you can ask Siri to find anything (entirety of human knowledge) and do yours!"
How well you remember also depends on your age. Did you dial via rotary or keypad? Rotary you really have it baked in, how many mis-spins to get a number dialed on rotary. 🤣😵💫
Haha so true hated that 🤣 - rotary here then we upgraded to push button - wohoo good ole days (:
Louis if you have 7, 8, 9, or 0 in your phone; I ain't dialing. Ain't no body got time for spinning a 9!
HAHAHAHA - SO true. I can remember all kinds of stuff from 50 years ago, but if you ask my why I walked into the kitchen 5 minute ago, I'm at a loss.
…😂😂 on the daily
I'm like that but I've always been like that so....
😆 but can u spin a 0 ha!
Rage-dialing a rotary phone just didn't have the same satisfaction of banging those old-school industrial-strength (indestructible short of a ball peen hammer) phone buttons....
So, Big bell had to supply the phones. Free then rent or something weird like that. They did not want have to replace broken equipment. Hence the indestructible phone that Nokia took to an art form.
Yep, I knew about this. I remember when it became a Thing that you could actually buy the phones, and that's when the great cheapening/loss of indestructibility occurred. I want to say this was mid to late 80s?
Cordless kind of made it happen. Oh, 800 Hmz but the 2.4 Ghz could walk half way down the block. So cool.
I had rotary, and then push button rotary. Parents bought a new phone but didnt want to pay for dial tone. LMAO!
My kids always asked "why do you say hello when you can see who it is on your phone?' - Had to tell them in the old days there were party lines and no way of knowing who was calling until you said "Hello" to know the connection went through. I follow that up with "I had to travel through snow and bad weather to a place called a library and use something called the Dewey Decimal system to do homework. Now you can ask Siri to find anything (entirety of human knowledge) and do yours!"
"didn't want to pay for dial tone"
That is PEAK "ok boomer"