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!!!
Hey! Where’s the SEND button?
I guess that film clip was played in movie theaters before the feature presentation?
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.
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.
I was thinking that the other day, just how many numbers do I actually know
I’m glad your wife is in your list of favorites.
The party lines were fun....You’d hear....”Would you please get off the line”....Hey, we were kids!!!
What year is this?
My mom was a switchboard operator as they were being phased out.
That’s nothing compared to the incredible database technology shown in this video from 3:55 on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hX57Oy2SA0
Dial? I use a voice recognition system to make my phone calls. Call "JimRob".
“Number, please.”
The switch to direct dial in my little northern Indiana city took place on November 22, 1963.
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
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
What did the drummer do to be listed after your wife?
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.
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.
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