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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Man, text messaging would have taken forever with a rotary phone...
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A friend of mine in high school's parents still had a rotary phone in 1988. By choice. With a rotary, there was no call waiting. I was never good at dialing rotary phones. It usually took at least two or three tries.
Back then, you also dialed "0" to reach an operator who could:
- Help you make international, collect, "person to person" and multiple-party calls
- Interrupt phone calls for an emergency (before/without call waiting, if the phone number was in use, you got a busy signal).
- Provide phone numbers
- Call the police/fire/ambulance, etc. As a little kid, I was taught "0" and not 911.
- Tell you the time. We did this when power went out and you needed to know the time, during the power outage, and when it came back (to reset your clocks). No, we never wore watches, lol.
- Help you with phone service problems.