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I like the idea and the looks of it, but do they get any usage (beyond the test calls)? It will be hard to overcome a lot of gaps in education - where is a ph
by schobi 1y ago
I like the idea and the looks of it, but do they get any usage (beyond the test calls)?
It will be hard to overcome a lot of gaps in education
- where is a phone (he seems to have signs "phone inside"), what kind of device am I even looking for, visually?
- is this operational? did someone forget this on the wall?
- how do you operate the dial?
- do you even remember a phone number that is useful now? When the smartphone suddenly stops working?
Sadly, I would probably score 2/4 and not rely on it.
- irrational 1y ago> do you even remember a phone number that is useful now? This is the one that would get me. Back in the 1980s and 90s I had lots of phone numbers memorized, now I don’t even know my wife’s phone number.
- WarOnPrivacy 1y ago> Back in the 1980s and 90s I had lots of phone numbers memorized, > now I don’t even know my wife’s phone number. I think this is all of us who were born before the Reagan admin. For my part, I combined both things you brought up. I have 10 numbers that are ~same as the ones I grew up with and they forward to the family phones (50¢ea/mo, MVNO)
- cafard 1y agoI have one friend's telephone number memorized, but he has had it for 40-plus years. My wife's and my son's? Well, they are stored on my phone.
- bombcar 1y agoWhen I realized the only practical numbers I knew were my home phone number from 1995 and my cell, I made it a point to memorize my wife’s.
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoIf I pointed my kids at one of those phones and said - Go see that that thing does. They would. Without an adult to prompt them, I think most kids would. As long as their ambition hasn't been conditioned away.
- franga2000 1y agoI worked as a tech on an art project involving a phone booth on a public square and every few hours I was there I'd see some children go in and try to talk. There were two unused booths, so on a few occasions I saw sibling go into them and "talk" to each other. The phones weren't plugged in, but my plan for this year is to set up an intercom between them. I also saw a lot of parent take their kids up to the booths and tell them about what it was like when we didn't have phones in our pockets.
- WalterBright 1y agoI dial important numbers by hand so that I remember them when I don't have my phone with me.
- bombcar 1y agoI may forget everything but I’ll always remember 867-5309
- layer8 1y agoRegarding the first one, the app icon of the phone app on smartphones still depicts a telephone receiver, so that should look somewhat familiar.
- cormorant 1y ago> do they get any usage (beyond the test calls)? Usage stats: https://randtel.co/stats.html https://randtel.co/stats.html