Who of you have never used a rotary phone?

[Peter Gozintite]

All three.

 

[moxie]

I also had an 84 Dodge Ram with the bright light switch in the floorboard.

My friend's dad had that in his truck and used to pretend he could magically make the lights brighter by pointing and saying some "magic" words as he was surreptitiously stepping on that little button. Then he'd tell my friend, "go ahead and try it!" and he'd get all excited when it worked for him, too.

Cot damn, kids are stupid.

 

[broncosmitty]

Dang, y'all had a nostalgia thread without me??

We had a rotary phone, road cone orange with the 40 foot cord. Also had a party line for the first couple years I can remember. The first push button phone we had, it STILL had to use the rotors to dial; you'd finish pushing all your buttons and you'd hear the "click-click-click-click-click"

Learned to drive stick on a flatbed when I was 16, not long after that I bought my brother's Dakota 5-speed. Big fun.

First couple of TVs I remember were black and white. I was probably 6-7 years old before we got a color one

I remember being so excited when we got a VCR, with a remote.

The cord on that remote had to be atleast 10 feet long. You could almost use it from the couch.

 

[Handicappers]

I remember seeing my first microwave at a friends house. He put a bowl that was lined with gold in it and set it for 1 minute. Had it one day and that dummy broke it within hours.

 

[Bender]

I'm old enough or poor enough to have used a rotary phone, feel like everyone here is too old as to never have used a rotary phone. Can't say I ever drove a stick, think my brother stopped that experiment before I broke the clutch or transmission or whatever i would have broke when he was trying to teach me stick on his Saturn.

 

[Wood20ks]

I dont ever remember our family having a bnw tv,but I remember watching one at the neighbors house.....

Maybe we did have such a tv cause I remember watching bnw programs......

Drove a 3-on-the-tree and the long handled stick on the floor.....

And yes,the rotary phone......remember it being used so much,the coil would retract into a ball....

 

[dbldwn711]

All three.

K

 

[Handicappers]

 

[stakesarehigh]

and color movies are still black and white on a Black and White TV

The fact this had to be explained.....yikes

 

[Kevin12773]

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.

The invention of GIFs is better

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

The invention of GIFs is better

Gifs are for retarded, easily amused boomers. Video without sound is pointless.

 

[outofyourmind]

 

[Kevin12773]

Gifs are for retarded, easily amused boomers. Video without sound is pointless.

 

[beardown07]

You'd get all the way to the last number and fuck up somehow, like it would catch er whatever and you wouldn't make the turn smooth enough, and you'd have to start all over. They were satisfying af to angry hang-up tho...it'd ring like a bell en shit. Good times.

 

[williewilliejuan]

Gifs are for retarded, easily amused boomers. Video without sound is pointless.

My experience with pornhub would suggest otherwise.

 

[williewilliejuan]

You'd get all the way to the last number and fuck up somehow, like it would catch er whatever and you wouldn't make the turn smooth enough, and you'd have to start all over. They were satisfying af to angry hang-up tho...it'd ring like a bell en shit. Good times.

Agreed. Hanging up on someone by poking a little icon on a screen is thoroughly unsatisfying.

 

[ill]

Agreed. Hanging up on someone by poking a little icon on a screen is thoroughly unsatisfying.

I enjoyed hanging up on people with my flip phone back before smartphones...