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In about 2003 I had a rotary phone. My girlfriend tried to call her friend who's number started with 912. She didn't turn the 2 all the way. She hung up when th
by kgwxd 8y ago
In about 2003 I had a rotary phone. My girlfriend tried to call her friend who's number started with 912. She didn't turn the 2 all the way. She hung up when the cops answered. That prompted an immediate callback and a pop-over shortly after.
- reaperducer 8y agoIn about 2003 I had a rotary phone I still have rotary phones in my house. Powderpuff blue in the kitchen. Black in my office. Goldenrod in the bedroom. The local telco doesn't support pulse dialing anymore, but there's a guy in Australia who make a little line-powered box that translates pulses into DTMF. It even does * and #, but I forget how.
- lostlogin 8y agoIf you choose a rotary phone, do you still curse people with 8s and 9s in their number as you dial?
- reaperducer 8y agoIf you choose a rotary phone, do you still curse people with 8s and 9s in their number as you dial? Yes. But mostly on the office phone because it slides around if I dial the numbers oriented toward the left side. Telcos used to intentionally give people low digits to keep dialing short. The abandoning of that notion is palpable when dialing rotary today. I wonder which actually used NANPA number is the longest to dial rotary under the current scheme.
- __m 8y agoWhen you choose a rotary phone you probably enjoy dialing those