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steve · 4837 days ago · link · · parent · post: What was daily life like before almost everyone had cell phones?
I recently acquired a rotary phone. Nothing was more fun than watching my three oldest kids pick it up and try to determine what it was. Even after they realized it was a phone - they couldn't fathom how it worked.
it is one of my prized pieces of nostalgia.
How funny :) Now that you've mentioned it, I suppose the design of those telephones really is pretty strange. The idea of dialing a number by making a circle thing go around... That's just weird, really. It's probably not something that's used on any other piece of equipment, so it's not like you can transfer a skill from somewhere else to work out what's going on.