Remember THESE phones?

[Warpy]

83. I wasn't cool with it

especially when I had to call some office that was always busy and had to keep dialing that damned thing like a maniac. Even using a pencil so I wouldn't get blisters was annoying as all hell.

I was absolutely thrilled to see those dial jobs go away. Now if only the telephone manufacturers would have kept the 10 key adding machine configuration so those of us who were number crunchers wouldn't get flummoxed by that damned backward keyboard.

However, then there was this:



The size and shape of a brick, it weighed about as much and had maybe a one minute battery life if you were lucky and called out instead of answering a ring. I wasn't rich enough to own one. I was grateful for that, people who had them drove like shit.

Nope, there's a lot of gadget evolution that I'm glad has taken place. Getting rid of those damned dials was a big one.