Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for December 18, 2023
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...
markkahler52 9 months ago
Waiting for instant teleporting. Barbaric, indeed!!
LawrenceS 9 months ago
Rabbi’s young daughter was over visiting our daughter, years ago. I forget the issue, but we suggested she call her parents for permission to do something. She looked at the rotary dial phone on the kitchen wall and asked, “How?”
John Wiley Premium Member 9 months ago
In my youth, we could use five digits. Last digit of the exchange, plus the four end digits.
Mountain Meg 9 months ago
The Flintstones never had speed dial. Of course, they were Hanna-Barbaric.
PoodleGroomer 9 months ago
The French had semaphore towers, but it took forever to get a wave tone.
ChukLitl Premium Member 9 months ago
Party line with the neighbors; if anyone is connected, everyone can listen & no one gets a dial tone.
willie_mctell 9 months ago
They had to rely on Hermod.
Dragoncat 9 months ago
I still remember my grandmother’s land line phone. It was kind of fun watching watching the number holes spin, making that cute sound…
I was so young, back then.
christelisbetty 9 months ago
WE had to either memorize phone numbers or carry them written on PAPER !