What would they do without toilet paper? These young'uns...

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I must be getting "old". I remember rotary phones, Pay phones and dial up internet that made high pitched squeals, use a tape recorder to play the dial up tones.

My grandmother still has a rotary phone on a coffee table in her basement. I doubt it works but when I was there last I noticed the line was still plugged in. I remember sneaking down into her basement to call girls when I was in middle school. Still remember one of the numbers to this day!!

You aren’t that old, my town of 170k still has the occaisional party line, ‘cause I work on em every now and then. Some people in rural areas still subscribe to dial-up internet. Also, some elderly folks that convert to digital VOIP (to save a few bucks) sometimes cancel that service because you can’t dial out on the one rotary phone in the house, and they don’t want to give that phone up!

 

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I didn't watch it, but I can imagine how it went.

To be fair, it would probably be equally funny to challenge an average adult in the seventies to construct a log cabin, or that same individual today (now an old timer) to reconfigure a cell phone. The human/technology mismatch is always fun, but it has always been there.

My coworkers marvel at my ability to open a can with an actual can opener - not a P-38, but something similar. It's not a skill that I learned as a child in the seventies though. I learned it last year, and only because I liked the idea of having a can opener on my keychain. While I remember how to use a rotary phone, I do not like the idea of having one today. Those things were ridiculous when they were invented and the years have not been kind to them.

Love the P-38 aka John Wayne they work well as a screwdriver flat or phillips in a pinch.