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drdeadringer
4415 days ago
Today, I learned that phones didn't have Qs or Zs. Things you don't notice on that one rotary phone your parents used to have when you were 5.
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seandougall
4415 days ago
Well, they had to make room for that tetragraph that has since sadly fallen so out of favor, "OPER".
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michaelmior
4415 days ago
Or the rotary phone your parents still have right now in my case.
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dasil003
4415 days ago
Or the antique Bell candlestick rotary phone that my mom has, still hard-wired into a phone nook inset into the plaster walls during construction nearly 100 years ago. And that bad boy
still works flawlessly
.
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drdeadringer
4415 days ago
Do they still rent it?
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