Hello everyone!!

[lumberjim]

dude:

I like the OLD vbulletin,
I like the OLD video games
I like the OLD music
I like the OLD ________

seems like you are living in the past, dude.

[glatt]

I've been helping my old relative and trying to orgnanize his house now that he's moved into assisted living. Anyway, I found an OLD dial phone hooked up in his basement, and so I brought it home to show my kids. I tried plugging it into my wall, and never thought it would work since we have FIOS and fiber optic cables. But it worked! The kids had fun dialing numbers.

[Lamplighter]

That is fun to see kids react to our "old, old, old school" ways.

My youngest G-kids did the same with a manual typewriter we had stored away... and it still worked too !

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[Undertoad]

FIOS converts the analog phone signal to internet before it leaves your house, for the trip around their circuits.

[glatt]

I figured that out, but for some reason thought they wouldn't bother with the pulse dialing bit. I knew touch tone dialing worked.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

That is fun to see kids react to our "old, old, old school" ways.

They thought the cord was pretty cool. My oldest remembered when we had a corded phone on the wall when she was a baby. But neither of them had seen a dial phone before. The funny thing was, they saw me demonstrate it to them, and then tried to use it themselves, but neither of them could get it to work on the first try. They were dialing without lifting the receiver first. My daughter went first and made that mistake, and figured it out. My son was watching, and then he made the exact same mistake when it was his turn.

When I was a kid, we had 5 digit phone numbers. Now, to call across the street here, you have to dial a 10 digit phone number. That takes a long time on a dial phone.

[DanaC]

I still have a corded phone. Lots of people do.

I remember our first telephone as a kid. I think I was probably about 6 or 7. It was wall mounted with groovy sleek lines instead of the rounded old fashioned receivers :p Like an office phone. But with a dial.

I even remember our first telephone number (not so astounding given Dad still had that number til about 20 years ago ;p) 0204 388917

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

dude:

I like the OLD vbulletin,
I like the OLD video games
I like the OLD music
I like the OLD ________

seems like you are living in the past, dude.

dude:

I hate modern books. They're RUBBISH. The last thing I read was cave writing. That was good enough in my day, and we LIKED it.

[Lamplighter]

...The last thing I read was cave writing. That was good enough in my day, and we LIKED it.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I still have a corded phone. Lots of people do.

I remember our first telephone as a kid. I think I was probably about 6 or 7. It was wall mounted with groovy sleek lines instead of the rounded old fashioned receivers :p Like an office phone. But with a dial.

I even remember our first telephone number (not so astounding given Dad still had that number til about 20 years ago ;p) 0204 388917

Yeah, well a lot of 2nd world people have them.

[limey]

Corded phones are a must if you live in an area where there are power cuts. It's amazing how many of my island neighbours have gone totally cordless and cannot be contacted in a power cut (mobile signal here is virtually non-existent).


Sent by thought transference

[Gravdigr]

We still have a corded phone, too. If you gotta have the line coming in for internet, may as well have the phone.

[busterb]

I have both cord and cordless, for the reason Limey stated. I also have the same # from when you only had 4 numbers. Maybe over 65 years.
Talk about drift.

[Undertoad]

FIOS/other new phone service powers old style phones from a battery on your premises. This power used to come from batteries at the central phone office. You can power your wireless phones during outages by connecting a UPS (i.e., a battery) to the base station.

Around here Verizon wants you to pay to replace your battery when it dies. The price is about the same price as a UPS...

[fargon]

We have a corded phone, it is the only phone in the building when the power goes out for days.