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!"
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!"