This reminds me of an event many years ago. I was digging through a box of junk I had stored and pulled an old phone out. My child looked at the dial on the fro

This reminds me of an event many years ago. I was digging through a box of junk I had stored and pulled an old phone out. My child looked at the dial on the front and said "Oh! That's why we say we 'dial' a phone number!" It hadn't occurred to me that was a mystery term until then.