Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for August 18, 2024

Both Luann and Grand Avenue have strips today about old tech.

The stuff that’s gone obsolete in just the past 30 years!! Unreal!

The 1st phone in our home that I remember was wood and hung on the wall. Everybody could listen in (and did). I now have it hanging on my office wall as a reminder of my past.

Next time show an iPhone!

Grandma is a Plugger.

Gawd, all those shapes and sizes and colors phone usta come in. . .think of all the romantic movie scenes with phones in them. . .Meet Me in St. Louis. . .Pillow Talk. . .Bells Are Ringing. . .cell phones just aren’t. . .photogenic. . .

Now explain to her how to use it.

she should know what a record is, they’ve made a comeback. even Walmart sells vinyl again.

Everyone who recognizes Kate’s phone feels as old as her reading this strip

Nothing stays the same. When we were kids the party line and crank wall phones and the phone Robert Stack held both pieces with one hand as Elliot Ness on the ‘Untouchables’ were old. We had letter prefixes for phone numbers, (MAnsfield 6- 4564) no area code yet. Dial, then touch tone push button, the ‘Princess Phone’. I had a calculator made by Sharp that had a phone dialer built in using the dial tones into the speaker of a non touch tone phone. But today’s kids would find the ‘brick’ cell phone as ancient too, and likely the Motorola Star Tac flip phone. And I had `em all.

Had a phone, on the wall, that was dial when I was a kid. You had to actually take time to dial (where the term comes from) the number that you were calling.

Nowadays, almost everything has a screen!

I gave up calling it a “phone”. Now it’s just my mobile.

I actually laughed at loud at this today. Thanks.

It’s so much that you’re old, they are just less informed.

Sorry, but if you’re just going to repeat “it’s a phone” over and over again, you’re the problem, not the “ignorant children.” The history of telecommunications is fascinating, and if you talk about it, they’ll learn something and be less ignorant. But, if you just repeat the same fact without any clarification or context, you’re just mean-spiritedly making fun of them.

silly Katie Bear

We Boomers keep booming.

Well since Grandma knows about the early phones, and different ones following, AND how to make hem make calls, as well as the latest smart phones…. I guess that makes her a LOT smarter than the little think-THEY-know-it-alls, and are smarter than Grandma!

I do not miss party lines.