This whole article is a load of shit and whoever posted it should feel bad
I don’t
completely based
spits
Me having just asked my dad to hang on to my grandma’s old chord set so I can find someone to turn it into some sort of modern use decoration:
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>_>
I thought people below a certain age hate voice calls and will only text.
Yeah that’s why Gen Z people like answering machines as an add on to their landline phones!
Are we? Hadn’t heard. Nobody is really calling each other in the first place anyway
Hmm…
Well anyway hope these are rediscovered too:
Quite Stable Bonus:
Who paid for them to write this article?
How does this belong in technology commynity post it a gossip one or something you idiot
I miss the days when people used punctuation
Me too , oh well nothing you can do about it.
Here, I have extra. Feel free to take some of mine.
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This is the very instant I have turned old. 👴
Wait until MCI goes behind your back and changes your service to them, and you get hit with a $300 bill that month, because every call is “long distance”. Yeah. Landlines were great.
land line quality far superior to cell phones though
Why would I care how clear the scammer sounds on the landline?
i just miss the crystal clarity of those days when talking on the phone. the sound was so good.
are you really caring about the tibre reproduction on your weed dealer calling to say why he’s three hours late
I can see limited use for a land line if you changed your cell number and then only gave out the land line number to companies. There are probably cheaper ways utilizing Google voice numbers of protecting the privacy of your main cell number though.
This is fucking stupid. It’s also probably like six people doing this.
Its so from nypost, which is garbage
The classic joke: “Do you know how journalists count? ‘One, two, trend’.”
Wait til they learn about rotary phones
Wait until.theynlearn about how much landlines cost these days. Forget avocado toast this is the real money sink.
The connection may be costly. But a beeline telephone costs less than 10$.
We all know landlines won’t be coming back. They can try and make it cool with some fancy stock photos but mobile phones have killed them long time ago.
They’re selling them at Urban outfitters, Target, Best Buy, etc now hah!
Fucking hell, 40 for a plastic phone.
Definitely not targeting some silly ticktock users.
Here’s one from Best Buy
With retro princess phone bundle 😂
That’s Ooma, an ip phone service. You can do it for free with Google voice.
Push button rotary 🤢
That’s like the “vintage” radios with fake plastic woodgrain and bluetooth/CD player built in.
Honestly I wouldn’t even mind an old school looking radio with Bluetooth especially if they used the big center for a battery or something. But push buttons are antithesis to a rotary phone
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
Further, classic copper networks are all almost gone, and will be going away, VOIP is the future, if they really want a land-line. It looks like they’re wired for ethernet, but it’s hard to tell and the most the Urban Outfitters site says is “The GPO 746 Rotary Telephone prides itself on its traditional and authentic look and feel with built-in modern technology” and “Compatible with modern telephone banking.” It seems to say nothing of specifications for either traditional copper wire or ethernet.
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
If its real hipsters, wouldn’t they eschew any newly made products and instead seek vintage items out of antique stores? (Because stuff from the 80s and 90s is now antiques). So no net new plastic.
They’re going to popularize handsets that look and function like old bell deskphones. Slide your cell phone inside the charger, and you can press buttons and use the handset via bluetooth.
That’s existed since ~2005, at least for the handset part.
My country where most people still have them.
Do ISPs “offer” them on a non-optional basis?
Landlines are dead, but I recently installed a VoIP phone because cell service at my house is great.
It is nice being able make calls reliabily now and the kids have a way to call 911 too.
here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every–everything… goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).
except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol’ shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.
that’s why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.
