When Is The Last Time You Used A Rotary Phone?

[Good Night Owl]

For those who do not know what I am talking about, just look at images. My grandma had one when I was a kid. That was the last time I used one. I saw some people have them, even in businesses over the course of the following ten years from when I was 9 maybe. Today, though? I can't remember if I saw one recently. I feel like it would have stuck out.

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my school has a couple in admin offices

[the vampire of time and memory]

my grandmother had one too, I don't think I ever got to use one myself

I still remember telephone boxes being around too

[saranacX]

It's been a long time, my grandparents had one. I'm sure it was before caller id.

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In a videogame

Oh that too. The Room 3. Of course that was much more recent.

[Masque]

About 10 years ago, maybe a bit more, I had a friend I worked with who had one at his house, still connected to a landline. I bet him $10 that I could use it to dial his cell phone, but without touching the dial.

Easy money. Tapped his number out on the hang-up switch and his cell phone rang.

But I was still living in a rural town at 17 with pulse-only phone lines (no touch-tone was available), so all my BBS activity on the Commodore 64 was done with a rotary phone.

Our family phone was a red AT&T phone, like Nixon's "hotline".

[saranacX]

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Oh that too. The Room 3. Of course that was much more recent.

Any interesting puzzle games you come across?

Well the most recent, this one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507190/Machinika_Museum/

It's "Room-like", though no eyepiece. I've still yet to play through the whole thing but I heard it's pretty good.

[DoomsDay]

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In a videogame. Lol that makes it sound like I play some boring-ass games.


I do.

I do have used rotary phone in games, besides that in my parent work place hospital,that was ages ago.

[Dutchgamer1982]

likely a decade ago..

my neighbour (than an old lady she has since moved out... or died... her children never told me.. rude.. but ok)

this old lady was a bit dementing I bet.. and often called my door for help.. also help thats a bit odd to ask to somebody your not related too..

***like when she was calling cause she wanted a printed out version of an old children fisherman song.. it had to be in large letters for he to see... and somehow this song reminded her of her decieced husband who had been a sailor..

quite the odd request but sure I did.. and than she wanted me to have like 10 euro for the bit of ink that used.. ofcourse I refused..

***one of these requests was her asking help with her banking... again prove she was already a bit gone... she allowed me a total stranger to see all her bankrecords including those that showed she had tens of thoudands in savings.... she just had a problem paying a bill...

(thats what happens when goverments introduce ebanking and close classic bankoffices)

I used my pc to google how what she needed to do had to be done.. without ebanking for her account had no ebanking.
but the old annalog ways were discontinued.. so she was basicly without option to pay the bill she wanted to pay and had to pay within 3 days..

well I had to call the bank and this was when I used her phone.. which was an old rotory phone.. which I last used before that likely as a child in the house I grew up in.. we likely got rid of it.. in like 1998.. so it brought back nice memories.

this was also when I discovered something I did not know.. you know those phoneline computers that say like press 2 for customer service press 3 if you are an excisting customer..
well I if you attempt to dial a number with a rotoraty phone instead of pressing a number on a buttoned phone.. that does not work...
you NEED a phone with buttons for that...

I had a phone with buttons in my house at that moment 10 years ago.. but shortly after I had to replace that for an VOIP model.. the classic phoneline in my nation has been discontinued.. a shame for it had it's own power so even in an outage you could call with it... eversince my landline is an voip one..

the old rotary phone I own somewhere just for sentementary value.. is pure for decuration... when you plug it in the wall now.. it does nothing.. that plug is dead. just as dead as tv by antenna.. or analog tv is..

[Dutchgamer1982]

I liked rotary phones.... the feeling.....
but I was not as sorry to see them go back than... as much i hated the whole change cellphones (that I refused to use much longer than most and were virtually not used until like 2000).. as well as the internet (that has destroyed so much of the good annalog things.. many for the worse

[saranacX]

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It's "Room-like", though no eyepiece. I've still yet to play through the whole thing but I heard it's pretty good.

Thank you. I've been looking for a good Rooms replacement for a long time. The atmosphere in those games is so nice.

It's a great series. Not sure if you're aware of the House of DaVinci series. It mimics The Room's mechanics pretty closely. The same company is coming out with a House Of Tesla line too.

[LeviathanWon]

I had 7 of them, I use 1 of them all of the time. When was the last time you throw a cell in the trash, called your leaders and told them you want better cheaper service?

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1980's.

[Haruspex]

The 90s. Touch-tone was standard, but grandma still had a rotary dial.

[Good Night Owl]

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I had 7 of them, I use 1 of them all of the time. When was the last time you throw a cell in the trash, called your leaders and told them you want better cheaper service?

Call my leaders? What are you talking about?

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Hi cringe at how long any number with a 9 use to take

[Angel]

My parents had one for a few years when growing up. It's actually a nice retro piece as a display by today's standards. I'm surprised that stores still sell them as a novelty yet working piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=updE5LVe6tg&ab_channel=TheEllenShow