Rotary Phones Nostalgia
Users share memories and anecdotes about rotary phones, party lines, pulse dialing, and old landline telephony behaviors, often contrasting them with modern phone systems.
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Wait until you find out what people used to do with phone lines!
I've used a rotary phone, on a party line. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony))
Real phones did work like that in +61 20-30 years ago :).
He was talking about landline numbers.
The conversation didn't prompt you to look up any rotary-phone-related content?
Also they were talking about rotary phones!
Thanks for the 411 on how the phone system worked back in the day!
Citation needed. I don't recall any land line phone I've used behaving in this way.
An old wired phone does it for ya, in fact :)
Also the rotary phones that the parent comment mentioned don't have it, so?