...the first touch-tone telephone was introduced. When I get frustrated with this modern world, I can usually make myself smile by imagining what text messaging would be like using a rotary dial.
It's obvious that as I grow older I become more easily amused.
It's obvious that as I grow older I become more easily amused.
As someone who's completely inept at texting, I like to think that rotary would've leveled the playing field.
I still have a rotary phone somewhere. It has a metal wheel.
Happy Birthday, by the way!
You do realize that party phones were the first chatrooms, and operators were the original moderators?
The coolest rotary phone? Ericofon 600!
http://www.ericofon.com/collection.htm
There's another video on that list from 1927, before talkies, from Pacific Telephone & Telegraph. May 28, 1927 was when the new service was initiated. Five numbers, and remember, "the dash is not dialed"!