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   Masterius said, 6 months ago

   LOL! Imagine if Phoebe had found a rotary dial phone!
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   DreamScourge said, 6 months ago

   I’m looking forward to the thing that makes the iPhone look like that.
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   Miss Tink said, 6 months ago

   I remember me and Josh using a rotary phone when were children. Boy, did our fingers get sore from dailing all our friends!
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   DreamScourge said, 6 months ago

   @Miss Tink

   My first telephone number was (+44 7) 231 just 3 numbers long :)
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   Q4horse said, 6 months ago

   I’m still using one just like that. At least it isn’t beaming radiation through my brain. The sound is always great and I never get dropped calls. Newer is not better. I will never surrender my copper conductors!
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   Q4horse said, 6 months ago

   I wonder what she would make of my wonderful manual typewriter and my marvelous stereo turntable.
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   Dampwaffle said, 6 months ago

   I remember when those first came out – Ma Bell touted them as the Slimline Princess phone. It had press buttons on the handset that lit up! Quite a change from the rotary phone. Of course, it suffered from the same problem as most cell phones do today – completely useless when some automated response computer asks you to enter a number because you can’t listen and poke the buttons at the same time…
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   SeaFox10 said, 6 months ago

   Back in the 60’s with our new house, we got the very first push button phone in the whole city!
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   kendallclark1973 said, 6 months ago

   Hey, I still keep one handy. If the power goes out and my cordless goes dead, I can plug in one of those babies and keep my landline going.
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    Alex said, 6 months ago

    At our older apartament we had that 1960’s rotary that worked perfectly as of 2007. I kinda miss it. I mean, our older flat altogether. But it’s just like with that phone – you have to abandon things so not to become a museum object yourself
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    puddleglum1066 said, 6 months ago

    I can still remember the day back in ’78 when I saw the original hand-held cell phone. It was a prototype and I was told to handle it carefully as it was one of only a handful in existence and cost something like fifty grand. The thing looked like a 3/4 scale military walkie-talkie, and the big thing I remember was how I marveled at how small it was…
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    ewalnut said, 6 months ago

    Maybe it is a rotary phone. I remember seeing some “Slimline” types like that that had rotary dials in them. I think they were for places that didn’t have touch tone service.
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    Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

    “Aw gimme a BREAK, mom. Next you’ll be telling me that big, fat thing, with the tiny screen is a Television Set!”
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    lyle.frescatore said, 6 months ago

    this is a really nicely drawn comic
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    PoodleGroomer said, 6 months ago

    Dials and touch tone generators are addons to a standard that is compatible with the wall mount crank phones and candlestick two piece phones.
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