Meet Me on My Rotary Phone.

We suspect kids today [and some adults] are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older people remember. But some people have a soft spot for the old rotary dial phones, including [Stavros], who wired a rotary phone to his computer for use on online meetings.

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/

#rotary #phone #handset #diy #engineering #media #maker #tech #art #raspberrypi #news

Ya podemos decir que la ruleta de la moda dió la vuelta entera y regresó al inicio… jajajajajaja

El “nuevo” auricular para hacer llamadas en el aifon… 🤣

Y no es broma, si es un producto real, vendido por los de #NativeUnion #Retro #Telephone #Handset

Das Foto zeigt einen Handsatz aus Bleibuchstaben in einem Schließrahmen, bereit für den Buchdruck.

#schriftsetzer #handsatz #bleisatz #buchdruck #lettern #bleibuchstaben #typografie #druckkunst #gutenberg #historischedruckwerkstatt #schlosshorst

The photo shows a hand-set of lead type in a locking frame, ready for printing.

#typesetter #handset #leadtype #letterpress #movabletype #typesetting #leadletters #typography #printmaking

Any suggestions for waterproof #PMR #handset|s? The #Motorola #Talkabout #T92 looks decent and even swims, but ~€50 is steep when any random #Retevis does the same thing modulo being waterproof for ~€10.

Seems I really need waterproofing as this kind of holiday has us wet to the underwear somewhat regularly. Fun hikes, but still, I want the communication to work reliably.

#retoot appreciated

#typography #letterpress #handset #broadsheet
The two issues of Desmond Jeffery’s Red Paper are now on @internetarchive. He devised, set and printed them in July and October of 1968 (a year when a lot was happening). Some of his earlier work is also up, and I shall be adding more.

https://archive.org/details/redpaper-1_july1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/redpaper-2_october1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up

Red Paper 1 : Desmond Jeffery : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Polemical broadsheet devised, composed and printed in England in July 1968 by the printer and typographer Desmond Jeffery (1926-1974). Dimensions 381 x 508 mm,...

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Word Search Puzzle 694

Word List : #cockshy #tarmac #handset #poditti #dhourras #chuser #huckster #bedim #harelips #dislodge #madagass #capellet #concurs #missions #lvalues #kolkoz #hartford #stife

Kara Finance

This is what a Phonair #telephone #handset #airFreshener looks like installed in it's natural envrionment, on the mouthpiece of a lovely red #GPO706

#phone #telephoneHeritage #telephoneHistory #vintagePhone #vintageTelephone #telephoneSanitiser

Does your #telephone #handset smell of old feet for some reason?

Stop sniffing it like a weirdo, and install a “Phonair” telephone freshener!

This little silver puck clips on to the mouthpiece of your GPO telephone and makes it smell lemon fresh for up to 3 months!

Also available in rose and “original” flavour.

(Not suitable for trimphones)

Uk Pat No 1157643, issued circa 1965

#phone #telephoneHistory #vintageTelephone #vintagePhone #telecoms #POTelephones

@lauren

Also much-later #wallphones with a hook you hung the #handset up on. Not as common parlance as "hang up", but going "off-hook" meant something physical. My family still had one in 1982. Harvest Gold.

My favourite bit of phone tech that didn't belong properly in either the analog or digital universes was pushbutton phones that had a selector switch that let you configure them to emit #DTMF tones OR #pulse trains. I had one; phone company charged $2 extra per month for DTMF support.

#letsroll

⚀ ⚁ ⚅ ⚅ ⚅→#backshift
⚅ ⚁ ⚄ ⚅ ⚃→#trifle
⚂ ⚂ ⚂ ⚄ ⚅→#handset
⚄ ⚅ ⚀ ⚄ ⚁→#stand
⚂ ⚄ ⚃ ⚁ ⚅→#kitchen
⚄ ⚀ ⚁ ⚅ ⚂→#relock

backshift-trifle-handset-stand-kitchen-relock

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

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