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 | New Fisher Price sentient rotary dial phone can actually make phone calls. What's next? Easy-Bake Oven souffles? Animal See-and-Say-and-Smell? (gizmodo.com) |  | 53 | |
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Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
The call is coming FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
Barbie & Ken's Amateur Porno
That would make a great office phone...
..that I still wouldn't answer.
kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
I'm surprised they kept the rotary dial but then, it is 'retro.'
Still looks like the demented love-child of Bozo the Clown and Rainbow Brite.
Rotary dial? What... are we living in the 1900s or something?
Dammit Susie you ran up a bill of $3,000 with international calls!
Greeting and good day. Are you truly happy with your brand of diapers? Do they really do the job? My company can offer you top quality diapers at a savings, plus we deliver them automatically every month! How is that for convenience?
Do you know where mommy keeps the little plastic cards? Great! You're just minutes away from ordering top quality diapers! You will be the envy of the day care. Got the card? What are the numbers? You don't know numbers. Well, the boss didn't think this through very well did he? Put mommy on and start screaming.
kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
Older kids, too. My nephew, when he was about 12, had no idea how to operate one of the rotary phones in my house.
steklo: [i2.wp.com image 850x803]
Meanwhile the call volume to Buenos Aires is up 2000%.
That brings me a bit of joy. It's a useless bit of nostalgia bait. Too bad they didn't make the base a solid block of hardwood like they used to be.
Great, another way to hack election machines. You know, like thermostats.
See and Say Vegan edition
The Cow goes... To the slaughterhouse and is packed preservative and non GMO hormones....
The pig goes... I am an intelligent creature and can easily be replaced with cheaper vegetarian choices.
fiddlehead: steklo: [i2.wp.com image 850x803]
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I had one of those as a kid...
They never lasted very long. I would toss mine down the stairs or out the window.
Hello? Parents of today, buy your kids an imagination- no Lego kits. Get freeform coloring booksaka notepads, free when brought home from the office, musical instruments, glue and popsicle sticks, and let them play in, and eat dirt.
Retro toys when most of us were kids:
We could make anything from a telegraph system, to space
manperson guns, even native style tree trimming devices. No whining 'I can't play Elsa for five minutes before dance/soccer/tutoring because I don't have all her color matched crap.' (Hey kid that stick in the upper left? Yeah, Elsa's special feelings wand.)
It's all fun and games until Junior bluetooths into an important call and makes fart noises.
I would not want my kid's first words to be "if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again."
/how old is the batter?
"Yes sir, I realize your PC is giving you issues. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
Was there a longer half hour than waiting on the 40W bulb in an easy bake oven to cook that brownie?
FTA:dialing the person's phone number, digit by digit (which is something most of us will probably have to look up in our phone's contact list).
That reminds me of when my wife couldn't believe that I didn't know her phone number, this being after several years of dating. I finally learned it when having to fill it out on a bunch of hospital forms when she was in labor with our son. The subsequently as our Wegman's shopper's car number.
Wimpy kids nowadays. Suzie broke her finger lawsuit in 3-2-1....
xxBirdMadGirlxx: kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
I'm surprised they kept the rotary dial but then, it is 'retro.'
Still looks like the demented love-child of Bozo the Clown and Rainbow Brite.
I think it's a set of pushbuttons arranged in the shape of a rotary dial
Harry Freakstorm: The pig goes
...All animals are equal!
// daughter is a librarian
// got the t-shirt...at Powell's Books
Or, if the Fisher-Price decor doesn't do it for you, transplant the guts into a real 500 set instead.
kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
I agreed with you right up until I showed my 4-year-old a picture and asked her what it was.
She said "it's a phone, daddy".
Beats me how she knows... maybe it was in a cartoon or something.
Does this phone have video chat?
Billy Liar: [image.tmdb.org image 780x439]
Came here to post this!
OldRod: Rotary dial? What... are we living in the 1900s or something?
Sometimes I forget just how good technology is and then I remember shiat like rotary phones.
I remember when I was somewhat little hating numbers with lots of 0s because they took longer to dial.
And when I was littler loving numbers with lots of 0s because more clickey.
steklo: [i2.wp.com image 850x803]
Conference phone
Conference table
4 chairs
4 coffee cups
No agenda
kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
Kids my day didn't know either, and I was 5. My babysitter told me what it was. In 30 years, I haven't forgotten.
Learning. OOOOooooooOoooOoooooo...
Hilarious video show 17 year old teenagers baffled by rotary phone
Bertuccio: steklo: [i2.wp.com image 850x803]
Conference phone
Conference table
4 chairs
4 coffee cups
No agenda
It's a realistic meeting simulator, what are you expecting?
Flowery Twats: xxBirdMadGirlxx: kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
I'm surprised they kept the rotary dial but then, it is 'retro.'
Still looks like the demented love-child of Bozo the Clown and Rainbow Brite.
I think it's a set of pushbuttons arranged in the shape of a rotary dial
No, it really is a rotary phone.
I want one
My parents still had a rotary phone until they switched to VOIP not that long ago. It came with the house. Cordless phones came and went, but that sucker never died.
This thing needs to be hacked and returned to stores programed with farked up numbers or something.
Bertuccio: OldRod: Rotary dial? What... are we living in the 1900s or something?
Sometimes I forget just how good technology is and then I remember shiat like rotary phones.
I remember when I was somewhat little hating numbers with lots of 0s because they took longer to dial.
And when I was littler loving numbers with lots of 0s because more clickey.
Odds are that 50 year old rotary phone in your attic would work just fine if you plugged it in.
Try that with a 50-year old iPhone stored for 20 years in an attic!
Western Electric built 'em to last! :-)
I just acquired a WE 302 with a date of 12-1941 stamped inside. Replaced the old cloth covered rubber cords with cloth covered PVC cords, cleaned it up a bit and switched the bell wiring so it would work on a 2-wire line, and...yep...works just fine on my Panasonic PBX.
No, absolutely no justification for it, except that it looks awesome and it's fun to use.
steklo: [Fark user image 453x352]
Anderson Jacobson coupler?
Ours were Omnitec 701s. I owned my own personal 701B...for a blazing 450 baud!
Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadu: FTA: dialing the person's phone number, digit by digit (which is something most of us will probably have to look up in our phone's contact list).
That reminds me of when my wife couldn't believe that I didn't know her phone number, this being after several years of dating. I finally learned it when having to fill it out on a bunch of hospital forms when she was in labor with our son. The subsequently as our Wegman's shopper's car number.
The phone numbers of my friends/family pre-alphanumeric keyboards are still etched in my brain.
It was faster then scrolling down phone lists.
Flowery Twats: nderson Jacobson coupler?
Gee, I don't know. I just typed in modem coupler and stole the first photo that looked good.
I saw my first telephone modem coupler in the very early 80's at a friends house when I was a teen.
"You see, we take the phone, put it in here, and then I dial the main frame back at my office. Then I'll type on the keyboard here and we can play some computer games...Just give it a second to sync up, ok?"
I've been in the telecommunications field since 1987 thanks to my friend's dad.
steklo: Flowery Twats: nderson Jacobson coupler?
Gee, I don't know. I just typed in modem coupler and stole the first photo that looked good.
I saw my first telephone modem coupler in the very early 80's at a friends house when I was a teen.
"You see, we take the phone, put it in here, and then I dial the main frame back at my office. Then I'll type on the keyboard here and we can play some computer games...Just give it a second to sync up, ok?"
I've been in the telecommunications field since 1987 thanks to my friend's dad.
Computers and comms/networking development since 1978 at Data General. Built a voice messaging card for the MV/8000 (which went nowhere, as minicomputers were losing out to workstations and then PCs)
I managed to get my own KSR-33 Teletype and acoustic coupler the second year of college, and had it in my dorm room. Feel sorry for the kid who lived below me, but I never had to trudge through the snow to a public terminal room to do my homework. I also managed to get a job repairing the timesharing Teletypes for the computing center. That came with a free, unlimited account on the mainframe, of which I made good use. When I stayed on for grad school, I managed to get a summer job at the DEC plant, and scrounged the parts for a VT-05 video terminal, which replaced the Teletype and served me well through grad school.
Lots of fun, I'm still playing with electronics, only now it's Arduino code! I took a bit of a retro step and rigged up a used PBX at home so the grandkids can play with my phone collection.
Resident Muslim: Joey Jo Jo Jr Shabadu: FTA: dialing the person's phone number, digit by digit (which is something most of us will probably have to look up in our phone's contact list).
That reminds me of when my wife couldn't believe that I didn't know her phone number, this being after several years of dating. I finally learned it when having to fill it out on a bunch of hospital forms when she was in labor with our son. The subsequently as our Wegman's shopper's car number.
The phone numbers of my friends/family pre-alphanumeric keyboards are still etched in my brain.
It was faster then scrolling down phone lists.
It's funny I still remember the phone numbers of a number of ex-girlfriend's homes after all these years...
steklo: [Fark user image image 453x352]
Huh
Flowery Twats: Computers and comms/networking development since 1978 at Data General.
ok ok...i'm with ya....
1978 I was in 8th grade...
by 1984 I was at Grumman's Data Institute where i learned to fix things with electronic components. By the time 1987 rolled around, I joined the service US army Signal Corps fixing phones, teletypes, etc...in 1990 when I got out, I started a job with BBN Communications...we had the Apranet/Milnet contract and I was hired as a pot hole repair man on the Information Superhighway.
Learned a lot about Unix, x.25, all that stuff. Gotta say, right place right time for all that Internet stuff.
Pretty blessed that I picked an interesting career.
My wife worked at Nortel...DMS 100 anyone?
Later on, I moved over to AOL, then to MCI, MCI/Worldcom Verizon....
My Mom was an operator for NY Bell (early 60's)...My grandfather was also in the US Army signal corps. He put up the loudspeakers over at Pearl Harbor. And he never once told stories about it.
Once while t-shooting a phone circuit, I actually talked a tech into giving me a loopback on an OC48. Oh that was fun....
xxBirdMadGirlxx: kdawg7736: Kids these days wouldn't even know it is a telephone.
I'm surprised they kept the rotary dial but then, it is 'retro.'
Still looks like the demented love-child of Bozo the Clown and Rainbow Brite.
I just remembered my niece has one and she likes it.
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