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WCDT: 2416-2420 (1-5 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread New
celticgeek:
I am very late to this part of the discussion, but when my wife an I were courting, she had a "crank" telephone that she used when I called her.
I should point out that we own this phone today. I have not tried to make it work, however.
Zebediah:
My dad still has a circa-1960 rotary phone in his house - same phone that was there when he and my mom moved there in 1961. And my grandfather had a late-1930s model in his house - for all I know it's still there, and still working, if the new owners didn't pull it out.
AT&T designed their standard rotary phones to have an average working life of 100 years, because they expected to own the phones and the phone network forever. And extrapolating from the failure rates of those old phones so far, they may have been overdesigned for even that standard - they're pretty robust.
mtmerrick:
Landlines? Who even HAS a landline anymore?
Method of Madness:
Often it's basically free for people with internet and cable, so it makes sense to use it at home, if you have limited mobile minutes.
celticgeek:
<Raises hand.> Too many people have our landline number memorized. We are gradually letting them know our cell number.
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