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> The rotary dialing is what makes the old phones fun, I saw this and thought that I must have gotten really annoyed at the slowness of rotary dialing... But
by fnord77 2y ago
> The rotary dialing is what makes the old phones fun,
I saw this and thought that I must have gotten really annoyed at the slowness of rotary dialing... But then really thinking about it I don't think I ever did.
Life was just slower back then.
- jillesvangurp 2y agoMost local numbers were short and people developed a muscle memory for numbers they dialed frequently. Somewhere in the eighties we got phones with a memory for speed dialing. I think it's still called dialing a number even though that's not been a thing for a few decades. Anyway, we had this exact model in our house when I was a kid in the seventies and eighties. The PTT (now KPN) had a monopoly on phone lines and rented out this model; so they were everywhere. Eventually newer models with keypads and memory functions came and the market opened up with more providers and different models. But that took quite some time to happen.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoThen you listen to "Alpha" by Vangelis and shed a tear. Or three.
- JJMcJ 2y agoRotary was fine until the first time I used Touch-Tone, as AT&T called it. I also remember the old Western Electric 500 and its touch tone younger brother, the 2500. Those were phones that were built to last: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Model500Telephone1951.jpg/888px-Model500Telephone1951.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mo...