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How to Dial a Telephone
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Posted on 04/14/2010 11:49:46 AM PDT by fishtank

I guess there's LOTS of people now who never had to learn to dial a telephone!!!


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KEYWORDS: dial; telephone
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1 posted on 04/14/2010 11:49:46 AM PDT by fishtank
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2 posted on 04/14/2010 11:50:37 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Hey! Where’s the SEND button?


3 posted on 04/14/2010 11:51:00 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

I guess that film clip was played in movie theaters before the feature presentation?


4 posted on 04/14/2010 11:52:07 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank
Standby - you will be connected shortly .....

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5 posted on 04/14/2010 11:52:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Those That Turn Their Swords into Plows Will Plow For Those That Don't.)
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To: fishtank

Sort of related, but how many of us cell phone users dial numbers, or do we all use our contact list?

I have no idea, off the top of my head, what my wife’s cell phone number is or her office number.

Contacts -> Favorites -> Wife

3 touches on my touch screen phone (not a droid or an iphone, just the samsung touch), and her phone is ringing.


6 posted on 04/14/2010 11:55:48 AM PDT by dmz
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To: SkyDancer

When she was a teen, my granddaughter saw an old phone in my basement and couldn’t figure out how to use a dial phone...sure does make one feel real old. Then again, the phones out today are a mystery to me....some of them I couldn’t use if I had to get to 911.


7 posted on 04/14/2010 11:56:03 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: dmz

I was thinking that the other day, just how many numbers do I actually know


8 posted on 04/14/2010 11:59:26 AM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: dmz

I’m glad your wife is in your list of favorites.


9 posted on 04/14/2010 12:00:07 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: SkyDancer
Ha, you beat me to it!

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10 posted on 04/14/2010 12:00:25 PM PDT by Canedawg (I'm not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: Canedawg

The party lines were fun....You’d hear....”Would you please get off the line”....Hey, we were kids!!!


11 posted on 04/14/2010 12:03:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: fishtank

What year is this?

My mom was a switchboard operator as they were being phased out.


12 posted on 04/14/2010 12:03:07 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: fishtank

That’s nothing compared to the incredible database technology shown in this video from 3:55 on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hX57Oy2SA0


13 posted on 04/14/2010 12:03:22 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: fishtank

Dial? I use a voice recognition system to make my phone calls. Call "JimRob".

14 posted on 04/14/2010 12:05:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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To: fishtank

“Number, please.”

The switch to direct dial in my little northern Indiana city took place on November 22, 1963.


15 posted on 04/14/2010 12:05:50 PM PDT by John W
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To: BitWielder1
I’m glad your wife is in your list of favorites.

LOL. The top 5 in my favorites on my phone:

1) The other guitar player in my band
2) the bass player in my band
3) my sister
4) my wife
5) the drummer in my band

16 posted on 04/14/2010 12:06:29 PM PDT by dmz
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To: fishtank

I went to a telephone museum in NH and it showed the old
switchboards. When you called the operator they would put a plug into a jack (so, if someone’s number was ‘31’ they’d
connect your call into that jack). Then came self dialing rotary phones

I remember seeing a very old TV show, World of Giants, about a spy who gets shrunk to 6 inches tall. He has to make an important call at once point...a night watchman was dead
and his full sized partner was out cold. So he had to climb up to the desk and laboriously dial the number—not easy at his size! Would be so much easier for him with a push button phone


17 posted on 04/14/2010 12:07:52 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: dmz

What did the drummer do to be listed after your wife?


18 posted on 04/14/2010 12:07:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: fishtank

For years my parents had rotary phones. They didn’t want to spend the extra money for touch tone. In the late 1980’s, we got a cordless phone and there was a switch on whether it did pulse dial or touch tone. I tried it with the touch tone and it worked. After some arguing with my parents, we finally upgraded to touch tone since it was an option that was no longer charged.

Of course now, there is VOIP and phone calls are next to nothing to make on long distance.


19 posted on 04/14/2010 12:09:55 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: RaceBannon

I was thinking that the other day, just how many numbers do I actually know

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In the early 80s, I was working retail, and after using a calculator for a year or so to calc tax on a sale, I discovered I could no longer easily do 5% tax in my head. I was a bit unhappy and took steps immediately to no longer use the calculator (hey, dude, wait while I figure out the tax!!).

I’m gonna do the same with cell numbers.

Maybe.


20 posted on 04/14/2010 12:09:55 PM PDT by dmz
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