AI6YR BenRing.... ring.... ring... ring... #phone
Anne Ominousi just realized that there are prolly many adults out there who have never heard a phone like this ringing
@rustoleumlove Here's the phone ringing! (rings better now, I actually went in and cleaned all the contacts since)
Ring.... Ring.... Ring...
lmao, the salad days of running to pick that thing up, even when i had absolutely NO IDEA who was on the other end!
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Lenora@ai6yr @rustoleumlove my parents owned a phone like that
@rustoleumlove @ai6yr I owned a phone that had a rotary dial but it was a slim phone
Paul_IPv6@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr
ah, the extra long, coiled handset cord!
our kitchen wall phone had one that reached all the way down the hallway and just barely under my sister's door.
you could kill yourself on it if she was on the phone to her boyfriend.
always fun doing the spin/untangle move every week or two when it got too knotted up.
@paul_ipv6 @rustoleumlove @ai6yr my brother would put a pillow on the floor along with a drink and snacks and relax while he talked to his girlfriend for over an hour every night.
@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr
so fun.
my dad didn't want to pay for call waiting, so my sister tying up the family phone was not popular.
@paul_ipv6 @rustoleumlove @ai6yr it wasn't popular in my house either. My Dad was constantly yelling at my brother to hang up the phone
@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr
ah, the dad classics:
"get off the damned phone so someone else can use it?"
"does anyone other than me ever turn off a light in this damned house?"
"stop standing there with the fridge door open like you're trying to air condition the whole house!"
"you're not going out of the house wearing that, are you?"
Led By Gilded Fools@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr Did you know that you could permanently stop spam callers, if you kept a ready copy of the "Disconnect" tone+message ready to be played by your phone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNb47yeNrCo
Telemarketers will mark your number as "disconnected"
Just try not to giggle while you are playing it.
We're sorry. You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. SIT
do you know how i've stopped spam callers?
i rarely if ever make or receive phone calls.
i dont know exactly how that has translated into hardly ever getting spam calls, but it has. i go whole months without getting one, and maybe i'll get like three that my phone automatically rejects in one day, then i go back to rarely getting them
kajer :notverified:@rustoleumlove @MHowell @ai6yr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleZapper
this was a thing sold "back then"
bjb 
@MHowell @ai6yr @rustoleumlove
I guess it reduced the spam for me. I cut out all the remaining spam calls on that line when I cancelled the voice line entirely : -) First I had my ISP convert the ISP account to "dry loop", othrrwise I would have had to suffer a week of no internet between "cancel phone line" and "reinstate isp service over the land line".
Wandering Hermit@MHowell @FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr
I knew a guy who used this as his announcement for voice mail. Friends knew to wait it out and leave a message.
David Whittemore
Elyse M Grasso@rustoleumlove @FaithinBones @ai6yr People did not own phones like that in the US (for most of the years they were in use). The phone company owned the equipment and the price of leasing them was part of your bill. It was not until 1980ish that people could own their telephone equipment. Maybe the late 70s.
@FaithinBones @rustoleumlove @ai6yr The rentals I lived in during the late 70s were in old buildings that had the phones hardwired into the wall. Then in 81 I moved into a newly constructed building that was wired for phone connectors, so I bought my first landline phone...
David J. Atkinson@FaithinBones @ai6yr @rustoleumlove I shared this video with my adult children. Most people have seen phones like this in older movies or TV, but the sound is almost always dubbed in later. I realized they had never heard a phone ring! My youngest, 32, said, “you mean, without a speaker?” They were all incredulous when I told them there were actual bells inside.
@FaithinBones @meltedcheese @ai6yr
i was out the other day & passed by a vast, empty lot covered w snow, next to an (old?) AT&T building
i turned to my man & said 'remember when those lots used to be full of cherry-picker trucks, & the guys would have to come repair phone lines after storms & sht?'
so funny, we got to discussing the timeline of tech, & how phone lines were 'important' for such a short period of time (when viewed against human history), they were practically temporary
@rustoleumlove @FaithinBones @ai6yr Phone lines changed the world and then disappeared under the ground, into walls, or became wireless. The same happened with electric motors, and more recently, computers. Apart from steampunk, we don’t really like to have our world cluttered with technological artifacts; we want them to disappear. I wonder, what is next?
Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸@ai6yr @rustoleumlove
When I was a reporter I ended up describing using a rotary dial phone to a group of high school kids, who giggled the entire time as I mimed dialing a number with lots of 8s and 9s and made the clicking noise as the wheel went back. I'm not convinced they believed me.
When I was a reporter I ended up describing using a rotary dial phone to a group of high school kids, who giggled the entire time as I mimed dialing a number with lots of 8s and 9s and made the clicking noise as the wheel went back. I'm not convinced they believed me.
this reminds me of the time that Sarah Kendzior said on twitter she'd finally let her kids watch The Ring
maybe she was joking a little, but
within the first 20 minutes of the movie she said she had to explain VHS tapes, landline phones, and newspapers LMFAO
@ai6yr @rustoleumlove Thanks for this video! You’ve done a great public service.
@ai6yr @rustoleumlove You’re welcome. People love flattery, especially when it is unearned. But I think you earned this one.
tlarivOMILAWD YES!!
there is NOTHING like slamming that receiver down! and mang those things had real heft.
honestly surprised by this result: 😂
brennen@rustoleumlove @ai6yr this is somehow such a sad thought
keith@rustoleumlove @ai6yr sometimes if the server is young and chatty i'll ask "have you ever used a rotary phone or heard one ring irl?" so far 100% have said yes, usually with "my grandparents have (or had) one at their house." i'm skeptical.
Nomdeb@rustoleumlove @ai6yr OK that freaks me out, but yes, that old. :) I think I've heard this as a ringtone at least, so it hopefully is not a totally unknown sound - even if people cannot connect it to the object that originally made it. :)