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.
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.
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.
Did they figure out how to text and upload to Facef*ck with it?
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.
Interesting comments from a few days ago if anyone cares to scan thru them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3719226/posts
And most can only tell time by a digital clock ask one what time is if it’s a quarter after one.
Does anybody remember that you could actually lift the handset out of the cradle and tap the disconnect button to dial a phone number (instead of using the dialer)?
Reminded me of the scene in “Zoolander” when those two geniuses tried to figure out how to get the computer to give them the information they wanted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uHBhKTSe0
They already can’t read or write cursive. How long until kids won’t be able to read an analog clock, or know which way is clock-wise?
If I’d never seen a rotary phone before, I doubt I’d do much better.
Laugh at your peril, because the joke is on us. The young are the future, and they know almost nothing about the past, as this video so perfectly demonstrates. The rotary dial telephone is merely one example of something we take for granted but is hopelessly out of place in the present. Sadly, it is a symbol for so many other things, including past standards of behavior, self-evident truths, and assumptions, which are likewise now hardly recognized and out of place in the present, and which will be completely unknown in the near future.
Any older technology rapidly becomes obsolete.
For centuries colonists and then Americans, made fire with flint & steel. How many of us have even the vaguest clue how that might work?
Who among us can plow a field with a horse or mule? In fact, how many of us even know the difference between a horse and a mule? Or even better, could pick out the best deal from 12 offered for sale?
Would a rotary phone work on a touch tone system?