Posted on 01/11/2019 3:47:20 PM PST by SJackson
Kids today know plenty, whether it's how to become a social media star on YouTube or how to navigate Snapchat. (It's a snap.) And at every step, their cellphones are close at hand, part extra appendage, part security blanket.
But cellphones are one thing.
And rotary dial models, quite another.
Two adorably clueless 17-year-olds, Jake and Kyle Bumstead of Illinois, got four minutes to dial a number on a rotary phone. It was their first time using such a relic from a bygone age.
Imagine asking an English speaker to parse some Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In this case, it took the pair more than a minute simply to recognize that Step 1 involved lifting the receiver.
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Kids can’t tell time on them ‘cause their PARENTS never taught them.
Seems counterproductive for time of day.
You have to be able to read the numbers while with an analog, you just have to see the hands.
My wristwatch is analog and only takes a quick glance.
Betcha some pol’s brother-in-law will make a fortune on the swap.
But what if there are no street lights?
SMH....city folk.
};^)
They'll do just fine. A printed signature will be accepted.
I got a fancy fitbit watch for Christmas. First thing AI did was change it to analog. (They have 1001 styles of analog faces to choose from.)
I was telling my kids that I think I like it better as it puts the time in reference to all of the other times. On the analog if I have a meeting at 2pm and the clock says 1:20, I have an easier time of seeing how much time I have.
When digital wristwatches first came out in the 70s they were LED, not LCD. You had to press a button for the numbers to appear.
Now THAT was progress....it took two hands to do what analog watches did with one. LOL
I remember party lines; was just a kid but I distinctly recall getting told to hang up the phone numerous times because someone else was using it.
I love how they kept “resetting” it by lifting the receiver. This was adorable, thanks for posting.
“Our number was one long one short. lol”
So was ours on the farm in Illinois 2 miles from the Indiana line. That was the best number because it was so short. Some had 2 longs and 3 shorts etc.
That could get you arrested for Mental Abuse, in today's world. /s
Who on earth do you send faxes to? Most businesses quit using them over twenty years ago.
My wife and I finally dumped our business fax, and switched to scanned/emailed docs in 2005, but we're always behind the tech curve.
Yep, because you had to stop whatever you were doing and start counting rings, so shorter was better. Our family was the first to get a phone in that area back when and the last to get a new one when they finally upgraded the system in 1987.
Those were fun times... We were in business and used to get a kick out of city folks who wanted to tie up our phone with unimportant stuff. “it’s right there”, They would just stare at it dumbfounded with no clue what to do with it because there wasn’t even a dial. “never mind... I can wait until I get to the next town”. lol
I actually learned how to use a slide rule in the ‘60s when dad was taking classes to become and Electrical Engineer....as he used me as his Guinea pig to help learn it better himself, it actually helped me when I got into Algebra and Trig
Provided your land line is straight out of the CO and not fed from a remote fiber fed or T1 fed cabinet with a battery back up that will take a dump after time because the Telcos dont have enough power units to support all the cabinets they have installed..but all that another story
We had a woman on our line who would talk for hours on end. She would talk to one woman from just after breakfast, about 7am, until around 11:30, when her husband came in for lunch. She was back on the phone with another woman around 1 when her husband was back out working until about 6pm when her husband would come back in.
She was the local gossip queen and kept more crap stirred up than the National Enquirer.
I use modern cordless phones (three linked to one base station) for the VOIP “landline” phone.
However, I loathe, despise and abominate the chirpy “ringer”, in all of its tunes, modes, whatevers that the phones would use... if I let them.
So, I bought an oldish black rotary phone and hooked it into the system. It’s attractive in its way and the ringing of the mechanical bell is far superior.
My home came with a disconnected wall hookup... so I bought a chocolate brown 70’s wall phone and hung it there. It does nothing, but looks quite correct!
One can answer and talk on the rotary phone, but not call out on it. The wall phone is an early touch-tone, and IF it was hooked up, could make calls and navigate those annoying “to _____, press 3” menus.
Your point well taken. Knew I had slipped up. Could fudge it though, by saying used genius in a colloquial sense though. Genius used as a sarcastic appellation.
Exactly... the next step to this evolution is younger people will start signing official documents with an "X" like illiterate people used to/still do. Says alot I think.
Schools are phasing out analog clocks because more and more kids have no idea how to read them. That’s been going on for quite a long time. I remember when my niece was about 12, she said I could tell time if you get me a digital watch. Very sad that parents care so little that they can’t teach things like that to their children.
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