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re: Before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:31 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:31 pm to fr33manator
Grew up on two party lines... Women would talk for hours... and they lived across the road from each other...
Mable, This is Joe... We need to make a call...
Mable, This is Joe... We need to make a call...
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Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:32 pm to fr33manator
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I’d say 80% of the numbers I have memorized to this day were ones written on that door
Same.
I still remember childhood phone numbers. Anybody that is a real friend of mine I know their number.
I still think having to remember phone numbers is why I'm so good with number recall to this day. If I didn't have pen/paper I had no choice. Had to remember the number until I got somewhere to write it down.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:33 pm to fr33manator
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I’d say 80% of the numbers I have memorized to this day were ones written on that door
I remember the phone number of the first house we lived at and my grandparents phone number to this day. That's been a long minute ago.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:33 pm to stendulkar
sounds like it fricking sucked
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:38 pm to WWII Collector
youth is wasted on the young and it’s a shame,
I used to remember numbers, now I’m forgetting the names,
Wish I could recall the stories, all those long gone old folks told,
But I guess that’s the lessons learned from growing old.
I used to remember numbers, now I’m forgetting the names,
Wish I could recall the stories, all those long gone old folks told,
But I guess that’s the lessons learned from growing old.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:38 pm to stendulkar
I always wanted to be the first name listed on a phone book page, so I could see my name at the top of the page.
Never happened
Never happened
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:38 pm to WestCoastAg
Humans talking to each other with their voices?
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:38 pm to WestCoastAg
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sounds like it fricking sucked
internet porn and virtual girlfriends must have been awesome
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:40 pm to stendulkar
As a kid of the 70's, our version of Amazon was the Sears catalog. You would call the 800 or local number and give them the item number and quantity and the item(s) would arrive within 7-10 days at a local Sears pickup center (no home delivery). You had to have a Sears account to order. Mastercard and Visa weren't really a thing yet.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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internet porn and virtual girlfriends must have been awesome
Kids these days will never know the rush of paying a bum to buy you a penthouse you kept out in the woods
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:41 pm to stendulkar
I just remember all the different phones we had starting with the old rotary dial to the fancy new push button phones, and then the enormous cordless telephone with telescoping antenna, and with separate answering machine you connected it to, and then to the cordless phone with answering machine built in. Throughout all of this, the folks actually still have the same phone number from the 60’s to present, and I haven’t had a land line in probably 20 years or so now.
I’ll bet not many of you had an actual little black book with phone numbers though.
I’ll bet not many of you had an actual little black book with phone numbers though.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:41 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Yep. You unraveled that mystery.
387-5411
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:47 pm to stendulkar
Back then you only had to dial 5 numbers. Ours was 9-@#$%. And then I guess when the population got bigger, they brought in 8 then the four-digit number. If you had to dial outside your area code, then the whole number B.R. 504-766-$%^#. Good times.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:49 pm to bee Rye
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Basically. We would call the movie theater and let the robot cycle through the showings.
Having to call the theater to pick a movie time seems like such a foreign concept now
I totally forgot about that. We also had to look in the paper to find out too.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:51 pm to WestCoastAg
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sounds like it fricking sucked
You made plans and you stuck to them. Cell phones just give people an excuse to be late or just not show up at all.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:52 pm to stendulkar
I remember calling home and leaving myself messages on the answering machine with reminders.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:53 pm to FCP
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387-5411
Ours was 843-6111. But we only had to dial 3-6111
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:53 pm to stendulkar
If you didn't screw of the end of the receiver to remove the mic so you could easedrop on someone's conversation without them hearing you, then you were a amateur.
Posted on 5/31/22 at 9:58 pm to sweetwaterbilly
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What is “time and temperature?” Is it just what it sounds like? A number you call and they tell you the time and temp?
I’m in my mid 30’s, and you can go frick yourself for making me feel old right before bed
Posted on 5/31/22 at 10:01 pm to stendulkar
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This post was edited on 5/31/22 at 10:03 pm
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