Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for January 05, 2017
January 04, 2017
January 06, 2017
Transcript:
hamhock: I don't know how people lived without speed dial! I mean, you used to have to punch in at least 7 numbers just to call your closest friends!! can you even imagine how inconvenient that was? so barbaric! tyr: I can imagine waiting thousands of years for the invention of the telephone... hamhock: so very barbaric...
Partyalldatyme almost 8 years ago
Growing up, we only had to use four digits if it was the same exchange. And punch? What is this punch of which you speak? We had to dial.
Dkram almost 8 years ago
OK then, shall we talk of Party Lines?
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Partyalldatyme almost 8 years ago
Oh, sure, had four on our party line. Four separate rings. Ours was one long and one short. Others were two long rings, three short rings, and two short and a long. Pick up the receiver to dial, someone from one of the other lines is talking.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I remember this one lady who kept saying “ringy-dingy” after every numeral when making a connection.
knight1192a almost 8 years ago
Punch seven digits? Wow, how terribly young Hamhock must be if he has no clue of either DIALING digits in a rotary dial or picking up a phone and telling the operator who your trying to call. And clearly he doesn’t get actually walking over to their house and chatting with them.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
You want to know what was barbaric ? Dial Up Internet so when you signed up for Netflix they had to mail you The DVD and there was no Hulu, Amazon Prime or You Tube. Now that was barbaric