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RE: My Googly-Eyes Contest Entry!
That old phone brings back memories. We have a powder blue rotary dial phone somewhere that we used with MagicJack for a while, but we could only take incoming calls with it. Still, it sounded pretty cool when it rang.
Do you remember when telephone companies advertised the sound quality of their lines? "You can hear a pin drop," and all that? I can't remember the last time I had a cell phone conversation with someone where I didn't need to ask them to repeat themselves a dozen times because the quality was so bad. No wonder we've all switched to texting.
Rotary phones were kind of awesome. They were still somewhat in use when I was a kid, but most people had graduated to button dial corded phones. I think I was about 10 or so when the first cordless phones came out. I remember my grandparents had old rotary phones for me and my cousins to play with when we visited. Good times!
And yes, I do remember the pin drop commercials!
I think that this was also the time when you rented the phone from the phone company instead of every owning it. Although that hasn't really changed. Apple finances a phone over two years knowing it'll be broken just when you're done paying for it!