Comment on Phonebooks

• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Hey, they did a good job, and no one was being mean about it. That’s nice.

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• wallybeavis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rotary phones weren’t even that long ago?!??! I still remember the swooop, click-click-click-click sound, oh, and the ear shattering ringing bells. I am happy that in our lifetime we’ve come so far that kids don’t understand tools from just a couple decades ago. I remember my father showing me a stack of punch cards he used at work and warning me not to touch them - but what I also know is, that those kids better get the hell off my damn lawn!

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  • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Fun fact: You could dial without even using the rotary. In a morse-code-like fashion, quickly click the hang-up knob the number you want with a pause in-between numbers. So if you were calling 558-9151 (remember 7 digit numbers‽), you’d do (c = click):

    c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c

    c

    c-c-c-c-c

    c

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• illi@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man rotary phones were the best

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  • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I had one in my room! Such a good feel to it. Same with picking up and hanging up!

    This was in the early 2000s, btw. They were already a relics, but landlines were still commonly used when I was in high school, so and it had such a handsome look to it and felt great to use. I have long thought that a product that would do incredibly well would be a cell phone charging dock where you put your phone in and while it’s charging it just acts like a landline rotary phone. The user experience is very, very gratifying, and if you’ve ever tried to hold a call while your phone is plugged into the wall you know how much better a solid headset with a coil wire would feel than that.

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• WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would probably have similar difficulties… I can’t even tell what they were doing wrong and then suddenly doing right. I do know the basic motion because I’ve seen it in shows I think, like you spin it around… but I never really thought about how precisely you do that. And you only had a certain amount of time to dial it?? That’s crazy.

  I will say I would have figured out you need to pick it up first sooner. But even my office phone I dial the number, see it on the little screen, hit send, and then lift up the receiver if I don’t want to use speaker phone.

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  • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They were starting by putting a finger in zero and then dragging to the number. And for zero they were dragging all the way to the stop.

    You’re supposed to dial by putting a finger in each number hole and then dragging to the stop. So they dialed zero correctly, but only zero.

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