Posted on 01/22/2024 6:45:55 AM PST by Red Badger
Kids today: What's a 'dial'?......................
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As a kid, you could never compete for a radio call-in prize giveaway with someone who had a touch-tone phone (perhaps even with *gasp!* redial!) if all you had was a rotary phone.
I also learned at a young age that you could dial a phone just by tapping on the "on hook" button. This was handy at school when phones had a little lock in them to prevent unauthorized use.
We were Eriswell 2265.
How about the old Batman TV show phrase:
Don’t touch that dial!...................
If I had to call home the number was 2791.
...60 years ago.
In the deep, dark recesses of my memory is our first phone number. It began, officially, with the letters DA, which stood for Davenport. DA was, of course, 3,2. We had no area codes when I first used a phone. If someone asked for the phone number, we would say “Davenport 2 - 2635.”
I remember a pseudo touch-tone phone that, when you pressed a number, you would still here the system dialing, like click-click-click.
She's 27 now, got her PHD from Brown in molecular something etc etc. and works at Chops (Children's Hospital) in Philadelphia as their lead data analyst.
Have never forgiven her for putting me in time out. lol
Yep, in the good old days a few decades ago, you just dialed 7 digits. Now you have to include an area code even dialing within the area code.
When I was growing up some people and places put these cute little locks that prevented you from dialing, we quickly figured out all you had to do was mimic the clicks dialing made bu pushing the hang up button off quickly to dial number, 5 5clicks...
Yes, my in-laws had a party line.
They lived in a rural place, that was all you could get, unless you paid a lot of money for a private line................
My companies first sales manager(RIP)used the phone with the pad on top so you could cradle it on your shoulder. Standard phone jockey equipment in the 1960s, 70s, 80s.
He used it so much that his head was permanently tilted to the left.
I recall being in the car behind him and his head/neck was cocked to the left even when he was driving.
This was before there was the HEAD SET now used by most telemarketers. Well before the Plantronics cordless headset like the one on my desk.
Sometimes I miss those days. Often.
411 was for information and as kids, we used to call that number to ask things like the current temperature and what the capitol of Kansas was. They always got super annoyed at us for doing that.
There was also a number you could dial to get the current time but I forgot what that one was.
In the 1976 presidential campaign, there was a "Dial-a-Joke" number that we called to get jokes about Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Those jokes were very lame by the way. Anyhow, I did not realize they were charging long distance fees every time we dialed it. My father was so pissed when the phone bill came!
damn! more new technology i gotta learn !?
it sure is getting difficult keeping up
Most people think “we” in the late 20th century/early 21st century experienced the most rapid technological change in history. I do not agree
Rather, it was our grandparents or even great grandparents
They went from horse to car, trains to flying, writing letters to making telephone calls, wood and coal to nuclear.
We were born with cars, planes, telephone - and still use them 100 years later, with some variations. The major change of “our” generation is cultural, moral, sexual - and those were NOT advances, but declines
6374 until about 1973 or so. Kansas still had party lines out in the country.
One guy in town has an old wrecker truck with 3 digit phone on the doors. Its a classic.
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