[nwrep]

Peak America.

[maddog55]

The good old days and party lines.

[Tell It Right]

My sister used the phone so much she literally had to wear a band-aid on her right pointer finger to reduce blisters. LOL

[BenLurkin]

[metmom]

Very useful to explain to the current generation what the phrase *dial the number* means.

[Sacajaweau]

Clocks have hands??

[NWFree]

Back when you actually had to remember phone numbers.

I can still remember my ex’s landline number at her parent’s house when we were dating 348-5483

[Yo-Yo]

What I find amusing is that the computer icon for "save" is a 3.5" floppy disk, something that most people under 30 have never seen.

[moovova]

[Carriage Hill]

I still remember my parent’s old phone number from 1955, in Arlington Heights, IL, long before the 312 area code: CL (Clearbrook) 9-0294. I was 6 back then.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

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.

[Leaning Right]

In my first apartment I was on a party line (anything to save a buck). I wonder how many people under 50 know what a party line is.

[eyeamok]

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...

[Magnum44]

[SamAdams76]

Back in those days, I always wondered why "911" had a nine in it. With a rotary phone, it would add a couple extra seconds to dial the 9 and you would have to wait for your ambulance to come that much longer. So they should have made emergency calls "111".

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!

[faithhopecharity]

damn! more new technology i gotta learn !?
it sure is getting difficult keeping up

[lefty-lie-spy]

I have a 1955 pay phone.

[FrankRizzo890]

But did you ever dial a number by tapping out the digits on the “hang up button”? This was a way that you could make a call even if the phone had one of those “dial locks” on it. (If you listened to the earpiece when you dialed a number you could hear the pace/cadence that the phone system expected the “taps” to be. If you could tap at that same speed, you could make a call!)

[ebshumidors]

Vertical hold.

[Lazamataz]

You kids with your newfangled ‘dial telephone’ technology. Back in MY day, you used a telegraph, and you LIKED IT!