I’m referring to the OLD land line phone system which basically is almost nonexistent now. Maybe you’re not old enough to remember it. There were no cordless phones even forty years ago, are you trying to draw a comparison between cordless and cell phones? That doesn’t even compute. There was no caller ID or phone blocking etc. until very recently. The first answering machine I ever saw was sold in 1970, was as big as a large suitcase and cost six months wages for someone with a good job. People often refer to VOIP phone service now as a “landline”. I hardly know anyone who has a REAL landline phone now. It was voice only, nothing else. You will have to admit one thing anyway, you could not take it with you everywhere you go so you couldn’t have young people sitting three feet apart and texting each other as many do now. When young people tell me themselves that they don’t know how to sit and carry on a face to face conversation I have to believe something has changed.
“I’m referring to the OLD land line phone system”
Oh yea? Where did you refer it? They still make FAX machines,
they still make answering machines. They had caller ID, forwarding and call waiting way before the cell phone craze
took off. And you couldn’t get teenagers off the phone back in the “OLD land line” days. I’m sure there were people
just like you who were complaining about the “OLD land line”
over smoke signals and the telegraph back in the day. That
was bunk then just as this article is bunk now.