Who of you have never used a rotary phone?

[Kburjr]

Or have never driven a manual transmission?

Or have watched a Black and White TV?

 

[ill]

never owned a black and white tv, but I am sure I have watched television on one.

manual transmission and rotary phone, yes.

 

[ill]

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I’ve never used a rotary phone.

The truck I have now is the first automatic I’ve ever owned.

Never owned a black and white tv, but I watched a lot of TVLand as a kid staying at my grandparents. Most of those shows were black and white

 

[outofyourmind]

All 3 by the time I was 12 years old

 

[williewilliejuan]

I used to have an old pickup that I kept just for those rare occasions when I needed a truck. Manual everything, including manually cranked windows (and no AC). I didn’t drive it much, so every so often I had to crank it up and drive around a bit to keep the battery charged.

On one of those trips, my oldest daughter (who was probably around 9 at the time) asked to come along. I had my window down and she asked how to roll hers down. I pointed to the crank and she had to ask what to do with it because she’d never been in a car with manually operated windows.

 

[moxie]

Are these no longer available?

 

[Kburjr]

I’ve never used a rotary phone.

The truck I have now is the first automatic I’ve ever owned.

Never owned a black and white tv, but I watched a lot of TVLand as a kid staying at my grandparents. Most of those shows were black and white

I get the TVLand idea, but that is not a Black and White TV that I was alluding to.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I can’t imagine having a phone with a cord. Unless I’m driving, I can be still and be on the phone, I’m walking all over the place. Text messaging the greatest invention ever.

 

[Kburjr]

Are these no longer available?

The was no hashtag or asterisk on the model I bought my kids.

 

[ill]

I get the TVLand idea, but that is not a Black and White TV that I was alluding to.

he isn't bright

 

[ill]

The was no hashtag or asterisk on the model I bought my kids.

I Just found a phone from the 90's with a hash-tag! Twitter wasn't even invented then, why did they need a hash-tag back then?

Answer (1 of 5): In some telephone systems the pound sign key (also called Number sign, Hash sign, octothorpe or tic-tac-toe) is used to indicate "end of dialing sequence". Upon receiving it, a switch or other communication equipment will immediately process the preceding digits, instead of waiti...

www.quora.com

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I get the TVLand idea, but that is not a Black and White TV that I was alluding to.

Then no unless you count those portable TVs with the pull out antennas that used to be around that had like a 4 inch screen. I used to watch football games on one of them at deer camp before we finally bought a real tv for down there

 

[Kburjr]

I can’t imagine having a phone with a cord. Unless I’m driving, I can be still and be on the phone, I’m walking all over the place. Text messaging the greatest invention ever.

Text messaging is an abomination turned loose on the world by the debil himself.

 

[RP-29]

Text messaging the greatest invention ever.

Slow yer hyperbole there, ese. Without electricity, text messaging could not exist.

 

[ill]

Are these no longer available?

mine had a leash...for some reason

also, it gave me fucking nightmares

 

[moxie]

The was no hashtag or asterisk on the model I bought my kids.

Oh, dang. I didn’t even notice that upgrade!

 

[moxie]

mine had a leash...for some reason

also, it gave me fucking nightmares

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Those creepy eyes! Lol!

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

Text messaging is an abomination turned loose on the world by the debil himself.

Nah. I hate talking on the phone. I can ask a question without actually talking to anyone

 

[Kburjr]

The hashtag or pound sign was also used as an abbreviation for pounds, just like it says. 35#