Posted on 01/19/2019 9:36:36 AM PST by NRx
A rotary dial is far from intuitive. Chronological snobbery is a two-way street.
Now THAT’S FUNNY!!!
With technology changes, there are lots of things young people don’t know about.
Ask some young people about television, if they know what VHF and UHF are.
Ask them if they know about over the air broadcasting, such as done by the legacy networks, NBC, ABC, CBS, as compared to cable/satellite TV reception.
Ask some young people about AM radio and FM radio.
“A rotary dial is far from intuitive.”
Really? What teenage boy doesn’t want to put his finger into a hole and spin it?
As a retired college prof who taught both undergrad and grad courses in digital communications and comm theory, it’s always fun to query some young-un who claims to be an “expert” on all things digital.
First question: “How does that phone know where you are touching on the screen?”
Second one: “Why are they called ‘cell’ phones?”
And those two questions are below Obama level that fifth grade science types have a good chance of knowing.
One could go on and on, but the sound of crickets after those first two questions requires earplugs, so why bother?
I remember crank phones and “party lines”. LOL.
You are correct but I do blame pre-college education system.
I took every science, electronics and chemistry class I could in Jr High and High School.
I finally ran out to classes to take.
When you are raising up a generation who don’t even know when sex they are, you are raising a generation of village idiots.
My worthless but very well funded school district offered a little biology or chemistry I think.
Many of us would have loved electronics and the like.
If you weren’t 4 year college bound, you weren’t important to the school system.
That’s funny. I remember when we had party lines, no rotary phones, and you had to ask the operator to connect your call. Our exchange in Rochester, NY was Genesee 8.
Party lines. the old way of letting all the neighbors know your deepest secrets. Been there, done that. Saw mom listening in on the neighbors.
My parents still had a party line in 80s and a rotary phone into the 90s.
“A rotary dial is far from intuitive.”
Which is why it worked so well long before the several generations of idiots were born?
Please. You have to know to dial clockwise until you hit the stop and then release it. And then wait until it returns on its own, you can’t just pull it back. None of this is at all intuitive.
Did they figure out how to text and upload to Facef*ck with it?
You didn’t teach yourself. You observed someone else.
Clearly you have not met my sister. The only phone in her apartment is a rotary. No cell phone. She calls them tumor phones. She still used the old rabbit ears on her 1980’s vintage TV until the technology was no longer supported. She didn’t stop complaining for... actually she still whines when the subject comes up. No computer. But she does have an old IBM electric typewriter from the late 1960’s I think. She is licensed for CCW and has several firearms, all revolvers. Her apartment is a time warp into another century.
I can excuse a teen from not knowing how to use a rotary phone but not knowing how to use a manual can opener is unforgivable.
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