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>Remember when channel changes on TVs were instantaneous? Somehow along the way the cable/TV companies introduced latency in the channel changes and people just
by dghughes 6y ago
>Remember when channel changes on TVs were instantaneous? Somehow along the way the cable/TV companies introduced latency in the channel changes and people just accepted it as the new normal
Phones used to be rotary dial but then touch tone phones with number buttons were introduced. I was reading an article about human brains and its expectations. Going from a touch tone phone to an old rotary style phone seems excruciatingly slow to our brains. Depending on the number a 1 on each it's very close in duration but a 9 or a 0 on a rotary compared to a touch tone 9 or 0 seems glacial in speed.
- rsynnott 6y agoEven worse; in some countries, touch tone exchanges took a while to roll out, with the result that keypad phones which supported both pulse dialing and tone dialing were common. And then people never switched them over to tone dialing. There were people pulse dialing into the 21st century.
- coryrc 6y agoIn the 90s, my family saved $2.68/mo on the phone bill by opting out of tone dialing.