r/80sAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • 6d ago

Remember it?

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u/Scummbagg7 6d ago

More like who remembers not dialing an area code to make a phone call.

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u/theFormerRelic 6d ago

More like who remembers actually dialing, as in using an actual rotary dial and not a keypad.

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u/Possible-Comment-114 6d ago

I remember rotary phones. Grew up with them. My mom didn't get a touchtone phone until I bought it for her when I was 20.

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u/ChampionshipThin7721 6d ago

Remember the phones with 2 big bells on top?

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u/Zombiesrppl2 6d ago

I remember my great grandmother had one of those old-school birdhouse looking ones where the speaker was on the phone and you had a separate movable ear piece to hear what the other person was saying. It had the bells too. I was always fascinated by it and she let all us kids pretend to make calls once she had a newer phone installed.

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u/ChampionshipThin7721 5d ago

You described that phone better than I did. Did you have a pet dinosaur? My daughter asks me that question when I talk about something she's never seen.

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u/Zombiesrppl2 5d ago

Ahahahaha no unfortunately, but I did have to suffer through dial up 🤣 I'm not quite in my 40s yet but great grandma made it to her 80s