I remember being on a party line for a while.
I got an NOS black rotary wall phone to hang in my kitchen, as there was a wall plate already in place (house built in 1977). I paid $25 for it on eBay. I have another rotary phone that I got from my nephew who took it out of a demolition project he was on at the time. He meant to give it to his nephew who was 5 years old at the time, but THAT nephew didn't appreciate getting a "phone" that didn't have a touchscreen.
Both phones have been serviced by an old-school tech and are fully functional, but we don't have service.
“ Good for the parents, if they want to go really retro, they should get a rotary phone, if they make them anymore.”
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Makes me wonder…. can you dial ‘0’ and get an operator now-a-days?
Next thing you know, someone will figure out how to send tones over the phone line so they can hook a computer up to it and download pron (slowly).
I miss our landline. The house we bought two years ago doesn’t even have the “outlets” for plugging in a phone. (I did keep a couple of phones.)
Will they have the stones to actually stop paying for their children’s phones? That’s kind of all it takes, isn’t it?
I didn’t know they were still available for any reasonable price. I’ve not had a landline since 1998.
I still have a land line.... Going on 40+ years.
We had a party line for a while when I was a kid. Very annoying. Now that my wife and I are elderly, we’re reluctant to rely on cell phones for emergency services. I honestly don’t know if true land lines exist here in KY, but we opted for Voice-Over IP when we bought our home. It emulates a land line, so it’s definitely an improvement over cellular. (I despise cell phones for a bunch of reasons, but especially if calling 911.) I’m all for limiting kids’ phone use. Land line or VOIP would work for teaching them that phones are for talking to other people, not being corrupted by ChiCom crap!
We never got rid of our landline.
I still have a landline and will as long as I live in my house.
You can have both.
The local phone company kept jacking up the rate every year as more and more people switched to all cellular. I think they may have switched all the remaining customers from analog to a digital VOIP system.
Hello Sarah, can you get me Juanita at the diner?
Just get them an old flip phone with no “smart” features.
They can talk but no internet on them.
Good indeed I still have a landline for home use no fear of ads popping up.
The cell phone is for emergence only use.