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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis video will make some of you feel old as hell. OMG!
I'm praying that this isn't real, but it is:
Phoenix61
(16,993 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,637 posts)I grew up with those phones, and I'm using a smartphone right now, so that video actually makes me feel smart.
That was too funny.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)The phone is not avocado in color; therefore, the experiment is worthless.
2naSalit
(86,323 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Maraya1969
(22,461 posts)It never gets in their heads that they have to keep the phone off the hook.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Born in 1976 here. Never owned a rotary phone in my life and neither did my family. Never used one until I was maybe eight or nine and stayed at my grandparent's house for a week, and they had one. Figured out how to use it within less than a minute with no one showing me. Which means 8-year-old me is a lot smarter than these two.
onethatcares
(16,161 posts)Prince Albert in a can?
elleng
(130,727 posts)Main 5-6590!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)and the phone was a big oak box on the wall. All calls were patched through an operator (1950s).
The first phone I can recall in my childhood home was the old black rotary dial Ma Bell phones and I think we only had to dial three or four numbers for local calls. All long distance (including neighboring towns) went through operators.
I need a grandpa emoji..........
Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)You know, numbers called ALpine 6-4823, TRansylvania, 6-5000 and more.
Wolf
Fla Dem
(23,586 posts)Would they know what a cassette tape, or 8-track tape, CD or DVR player, or even what a dvd is, would they know what Block Buster was?
So many advancements in such a short time frame.
VOX
(22,976 posts)A lot less animated, though.