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Kids trying to figure out how to use a rotary phone [video]
- tamaharbor 5y agoUsing a rotary phone at an older hotel recently, my 10 year old asked, “Wow, how did you know how to do that?”
- evanb 5y agoKids React has a similar video, https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM https://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM They’ve got a lot of videos of kids interacting with old tech, they’re quite funny.
- rossdavidh 5y agoNext up, Gen-X programmers trying to use the card reader.
- salawat 5y agoI always wanted to do that actually.
- emsy 5y agoYeah same here, I also always jokingly wondered why the CS curriculum doesn’t include history of CS, similar to history of wizardry in Harry Potter but the older I get, the more i think this would be a reasonable idea, if it would discuss what we tried and what did and didn’t work.
- tata71 5y agoOr worked until we needed *
- alexvoda 5y agoTotally endorse this idea. Also, I'd also like to try using a card reader and puncher. I find punched tape even more fascinating.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoMy university offered history of mathematics and computer science as a humanities elective.
- melony 5y agoCall me old fashioned but back in my day we used punch cards.
- numpad0 5y agoYou 3D printed that Among Us task thing!?
- telesilla 5y agoBack in the day of learning sound engineering I had to learn to splice tape for a year and use the analog studios before we were allowed to use the digital studio. I am not sure I learned anything specifically that made me a better engineer but I really really enjoyed the analog workflows, even though they were so slow and painful you really needed to think ahead and be mindful.
- j_not_j 5y agoFollowed by trying to put the cards back in order after dropping them.
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- shirro 5y agoLived in a student accommodation (pre-mobile but after most rotary dialers) which had a phone for receiving incoming calls which had no touchpad or dialer on it to "prevent" students making calls but otherwise was an ordinary line. The phone system recognised two signalling types, touch tones and the older pulses sent by rotary dials. It was possible to simulate a rotary dialer by tapping the hook switch the number of times of the digit or 10 for zero with a pause between each digit.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoThat is one _massive_ URL full of tracking parameters, etc.