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Hearing Say it Ain't So -- Blink 182
How to Use the Phone
Via Boing Boing, a short little movie on How to Use the Phone -- this instructional film coming from the year 1927. Apparently the phone system was switching from the old method of having the operating connect you to the crazy, new-fangled system where you used a rotary dial. You could call someone yourself with no need for the intermediary operator! I wonder what the operator's union thought of that at the time. Ironically, an instructional video on how to use a rotary phone is likely to be equally useful today because, honestly, when was the last time anyone used one? Regularly?
I remember when I worked at the newspaper and I had to get an old-fashioned phone installed at my desk to do phone interviews (the PDX system didn't allow you to make recordings), and it has an actual honest-to-goodness bell inside from when the phone was ringing. And the first time someone called that phone, all the noise in the newsroom stopped, because it was the first time in years anyone had heard an actual bell in a phone instead of an electronic ring tone. And that was 10 years ago now. I can't even imagine what Athena would do with a rotary phone. Probably just look at it and laugh.
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1999. The last time I used a rotary phone. I only know because the phone in my kitchen was rotary and I haven't seen one since I moved. But, I loved that phone and I loved sitting on the counter talking on it. hehe ^_^ Would be nice to have that nowadays since I'm on the phone so much. When was the last time anyone sat down and JUST talked on the phone? What with cell phones and cordless phones, nobody ever just talks anymore. We're always doing twenty other things at once. Okay, ending rant. (And all this anti-technology ranting from a 15-year old! LOL)
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