by Mavericks just doin a flyby on November 29th, 2008
Dial? Hell we didn't have dial. I had me a cage full of pigeons that I had to tie these stupid little notes to their stupid little legs, and they would crap all over, oh, what a mess they made and then came that those crazy wires with all that silly beeping and the horseless carriages and what not............
by joseph j on December 6th, 2007
I do. I thought they were fun to dial!! Do you remember when push button came out and you had a choice of how to dial, tone or pulse??
by Account Closed on November 9th, 2007
No doubt I also remember the phones you had to crank to get the operator and didn't have a dial but had them connect you to the party you were wanting.
by Scooter on November 9th, 2007
I still have a rotary phone. I use it to get to the head of the que when calling credit card, utility, banking companies. I find the clicking noise amusing!
by Tinkerbell on November 9th, 2007
I do. Was commonplace when I was a kid. And I ain't that ancient :)
by 6 Wheel Car on November 29th, 2008
Yes, I clearly remember what a novelty the touch tone one was with its keypad because you could play tunes on them. We had dial service only in the town I was born in (we moved when i was small but visited often) until Ronald Reagan was almost OUT of office. People sometimes had two phones so they could use the automated touch tone features after they dialed on the rotary.
by Sanguine Visions is wearing ninja garbs on November 11th, 2008
Yeah I do, but think about this... what if they'd came with cell phones at that time... wouldn't that kind of suck?
by Sandman on August 19th, 2008
Dial, schmial. I remember having to turn a crank; then I would say to the operator, "Mabel, I want to talk to my grandmother," and Mabel would connect me and ring my grandmother's phone. Mabel knew my voice, and knew my grandmother.
But that was 70 years ago.
by Galeanda on August 15th, 2008
Yes and it wasn't so long ago for me. We had one rotary dial phone up to about 4 years ago. I loved letting kids use our phone and they would look at it and not know how to use it LOL!!!!!
by Stewie_G on August 15th, 2008
Yes.
In fact someone I know still has one in their basement and her Grandson wanted to know how it worked!
by eric on March 9th, 2008
I remember. I have one of those around here somewhere.
by jude7186 on March 9th, 2008
it was a long time ago.
by koldkanuck on February 11th, 2008
I remember when using a phone involved 2 cranks,
one at my end and the partyline operator.
by Johnny Rebel on January 29th, 2008
i still dial on my cell, its faster for me because the #s are bigger than the letters.
by Anonymous on December 6th, 2007
I sure do remember..and I remember the party line. You could have 8 or 10 other people using the same line.
by Lady Alathia of Vulcan on December 6th, 2007
Oh yeah. We had one when I was a kid... my little brother got his finger stuck in the dial ^_^ he was about two. Clutzy little kid.
by Jack Wallace on December 6th, 2007
Yep. My folks even had one in their lake cottage in Chautauqua NY until Mom sold the place in 2001. The local privately owned (monopoly) phone company of Jamestown NY was still living in -- well, the Depression, if not the Dark Ages. They even had party lines up until the mid '80s.
by Mrs.Dufresne rediscovers Alana Davis on December 5th, 2007
Yes. When I was little we had an ochre colored rotary phone. I would always have nightmares about being in an emergency situation and not being able to dial it fast enough. Weird.
by The Dean on December 5th, 2007
I still use one. reeks havok with the FBI's phone taps.
I saw a website that sells refurbished old phones for huge sums of money.
by koldkanuck on December 5th, 2007
Oh yeah!
anyone remember or use a telephome when there was no dial just a crank magneto your number was longs or short rings
and a commedienne would ask is this the person with whom i'm speaking? party line.
by scubaduba on November 9th, 2007
Oh yes. I think my parents were the last ones on the block to get a push button phone. They didn't want to pay the extra $3/month for push button.
by Carter.Rugby.Girl on November 9th, 2007
yea my friend had an old ph in her room, its awesum
by Mas on November 9th, 2007
I'm not that old, but I have used an old fashioned phone with a dial. If I had my own house I'd install such phones. I don't have a cell phone either.
by Chicken Pee on November 9th, 2007
Ah yes...the spinning dial. lol. I was just talking about today, the cordless phones that first came out that were about twelve inches long and huge. lol. And the old portable phones that you had to carry a backpack along with it.....
by MrWitch on November 9th, 2007
Oh yes. We didn't have a telephone in the house until 1980, and I wasn't using the button ones until 1986. This could start to sound like Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch, so I'll shut up.
by xhepera on November 9th, 2007
You're forcing me to admit my age, but yes I do. I even remember when some didn't even have a dial, but only a switchhook, which one tapped in order to get an operator on the line to place the call. Ahh, my misspent youth ;)
by crushedbutterfly on November 9th, 2007
you mean like now just go to CONTACT and press talk? Yes I remember those past days when one had to dial the whole number. The cell phone has ruined my life in a way. OH the nights I drunk Dial.
by Kal-El on November 9th, 2007
*Shudders* Before voice command, built in phone books, and speed dial.
by Wickels on November 9th, 2007
I do. We had a green rotary phone for a LONG time. My grandma had hers even longer!!
by Merfish on July 30th, 2009
Yes, and the phones were heavy enough to be used as a weapon.
by LoggyBren on July 30th, 2009
Most of my life I remember.
by Symbeline on July 30th, 2009
No. I have a modern telephone that emulates the physical style of those old ones though, with the weird receiver, but it's touch tone.
by anguilla on March 2nd, 2009
I remember an operator asking "Number please?" That was before we got even rotary phones.
by Anonymous on July 30th, 2009
Yep. I also remember not "dialing" at all but flipping the switch hook to pulse out the numbers, just because we could.
by High Shaman on July 30th, 2009
LOL ... Being as I am 60 years YOUNG ... I can remember the dial telephone ... +5
by The Red Queelon on July 30th, 2009
No, as I was born after those phones stopped being useful.
by jim928 on March 2nd, 2009
I still have and use a rotary phone. Whats really cool is since I switched my home phone over to Comcast and I can now use the rotary with automated phone systems. Somehow now the clicks are now understood.
by Sandman on November 27th, 2009
I remember when we had to turn a crank, and later a phone without a dial. I picked up the earpiece and said, "Mabel, let me talk to my grandmother," and the operator rang my grandmother's house. Mabel recognised my voice, for she lived just down the block from us.
I also remember party lines, actually phone numbers shared by several households; we'd answer when the phone rang, and hang up if the call was for someone else on the same party line.
by Isaac on December 5th, 2009
No. I'm either really young or really forgetful, or both!
by ZombieMovieFan on July 15th, 2008
O yea I still have my grand mothers phone hooked up in my house still works as good as any phone in my house and made from the old kind of plastic that can stop a bullet lol
by BayAreaBiker on March 2nd, 2009
Yes I do, many years ago. Later push-button dialing that sent signals identical to rotary dialing. This was much slower than touch-tone, which led to its being discontinued. Pulse signals will not work with automated systems now prevalent.
by scooby doo on December 5th, 2009
I still keep a rotary dial phone for emergency use. They will still dial out if a thunderstorm knocks out your power. They dont require power from a wall socket like fancy cordless models..
by koynas on November 25th, 2009
... It was a cold Russian winter in St. Petersburg before the Perestroyka.
by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on November 25th, 2009
Until about 1970. Yes.
by Natylino121 on November 25th, 2009
Sorry mate I didn't get that??
by Howeird on November 25th, 2009
Yes, and I also remember the old handcranked ones. Nearly everyone on your line would eavesdrop on your conversations.Phone numbers were so many rings per household. Our number was 4 F 7. (four short rings on line number seven)
by Kila Malia on February 7th, 2009
yes When I was a clild
by Anonymous on April 30th, 2008
Yes.
by notmrjohn on April 30th, 2008
Yup. Do you remember when the wire between hand set and ... uh... the base wasn't a coil, but just a cloth covered wire? The actuall 'machine' belonged to Ma Bell. How about 'party lines?' I remember the 'phone man' coming into our living room and picking up the phone, ' I'm sorry ladies, this is THE PHONE COMPANY,' he said, ' you will have to hang up while I switch this phone to a private line.' I could almost hear the gossips gasp, we were so proud, we could call anybody anytime, without having to check to see if anybody was calling anybody at anytime.
Remember when telephone 'prefixes' were words? We were DRake.
by Readncoffee on April 30th, 2008
Yes, and I even remember having an operator ask me what number I wanted to be connected to!!
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yes my grandma has still has a rotary dial phone
by Anonymous on January 1st, 2009
Yes I do. And all emergency numbers had 9s and 0s in them! took forever to dial 900. ( European version of 911 )
by wvos on December 6th, 2009