Your first phone call

Rotary. Definitely rotary. In fact, my mom still had two rotary phones in use in her house up until she moved in with me in the late 90s.

I'm about 10 yrs older than you and we didn't get a push button phone until I was in Jr. High School. I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread! I remember dialing the "time and temperature" number about a dozen times the first few days just to use the buttons. I still have an old rotary phone that's hooked up in the basement. It belonged to my grandparents and it's from the 1950's. I swear this thing weighs 15 lbs! The receiver alone weighs about 5 lbs. It's made of what feels and looks like cast iron. Even the dial is made of metal. It still works .. ah they don't make things like they used to. LOL.

I will be 45 this year. Yes, we had a rotary dial phone (and a black and white television). We only had two phones I think. Now there is, like, a phone in every room of the house, as well as the roam phone. Back then there were only black phones. When we switched to the push button phone we got a green phone (my mom's kitchen was all green back then). I was excited about getting the new phone. Can't imagine why. LOL!

mine too. and i remember trying to get my grandfather to get a push button phone was like pulling teeth. you use to think you got charged for pushing the buttons!!!! it took years to get him to get a new phone. when he did were so happy. but i think he didn't want new phone cause then he couldn't lock it!! do you remember the phone locks??

Yep, rotary dial for me too. I am forty one and have seen the changes you refer to. It is amazing. I remember that phone, it was black with a huge dial face and it hung on the wall in our den. I was little and couldn't even reach it. I also remember what my first phone call was. I called my friend Nancy to ask if she could come over to play. I was so nervous, I had to stand on a chair and my mom helped me dial the number myself. So funny that I can remember that.

would you believe it but I can't remember Being raised in the middle of nowhere Alberta I can't think that we had a phone until I had left homw

Hi nice discussion, well i am 25 now, and the first phone call was pressing button system, though they were rotary dial phones but i used pus button phone...Thank you so much for posting a good discussion bye and have a nice day and take care, i think all people of my age had make use of push button phones ...Well in my grand ma's age she never knew about phones... Bye and have a nice day... Thanks, Vani.

Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth (1950S) we had the rotary dial phones and instead of all numbers, we had a name in the beginning. I think ours was Fairfax and later when we moved it became Hastings plus the four numbers. Then they changed them to all numbers, but it was five numbers for some time, until they later changed it to six numbers as it is now. Later on they made push button phones which I sort of liked as it cut down on misdialing (finger slipping)_ Now you have to remember not just six numbers, but in some case nine numbers as well as the code you have to put in.

The first phone that I used was a rotary. I am so glad I didn't have to turn the crank on the side of the phone and ask the operator to connect me with A275H. Pretty soon all you will have to do is think of the person and it will call them.

I remember my great grandmother had a rotary phone. And I think we had one as well. So I guess that's probably the first kind of phone I ever used. Although I can't remember back that far to really say for sure.

The first phone I met in my life was a rotary phone in my grandparents' house.At that time,I was curious about how this kind of phone worked but I was not brave to dial it coz I didn't know anyone's number so I just looked at it,never used it,lol.

I'm 46... shure rotary dial lol... hehehe

Hi paidreader! I'm 28 year's old, but I remember my first phone call on rotary dial phone! And for a very long time we had that rotary dial phone at home. First time I used a push button phone was at my dad's office many years later... Hey, you made me feel old with this discussion, grrr!! I't like confessing I had no disposable dipers, I used washable ones, puaj! =)

I was 3 when I made the first call that I remember. My mom had gone into labor with my brother and I had to call my gram to come and get me. It was a rotary phone...1959.Back then we had operators ...live operators to assist us if we needed help. Also ....the party lines. I remember having one for a long time because they were so much cheaper. The luxery of having a private line!! Now the phone co. charges big rates for 3 party conversations! Push button? I don't remember just when that came out but i know rotary was around and common for a long long time. And cordless...I got my first cordless phone, hmm...8 0's?? I still have an old push button non-cordless phone...comes in real handy when we lose power. I don't use it but I won't get rid of it either.

I remember very well the frist phone call I made. You picked up the reciever and rang the crank I asked the operator for the time and she told me. When my parnets got home I got a spanking for playing with the phone cause the operator my parnets. It wasn't till after I was out of the house in the sixtys that my parnets got their frist rotary dial phone then in the ninteys they got their frist push button phone. We lived in a small town in the midwest and it sure was behind times. They still don't have any ATM Machines in our town so when I ask where I could find one they looked at me and laughted. They thought I came from another planet. I was surprised that hardly anyone in the town had a computer much less have the internet. Guess those farmers still don't like all the modern conventes the the rest of us like.

I remember with my grandmother.... we call on a phone booth... the one that have to pay a coin...

I live in India and I am 58. During my child hood and college days, phone was considered a very luxury item here. Only very few houses had a phone. Public phones were also rare even in the city.I made my first call in 1967 and from a rotary dialing phone. Only by the mid eighties did the push button model appear here. Now phone is available in every household and even the rikshaw man, the fish vendor and a porter has his own mobile. Great change.

I have the phone that we are using today. I don't remember using rotary dial phone way before. What i remember is i seen a rotary dial phone on a old movies.

I'm quite a bit older than you, paidreader, and even I cannot remember back further than the rotary dial phones. I guess the phones have evolved quite a bit since the days when they had them on the wall and had to wind them up to reach the operator. I used to watch a lot of old movies with these types of phones in them.

I still remember when I was young, the telephones were rotary dial phones. Push button phones only came later. But my first phone as a little boy was not these real phones that go through the telephone exchange. Rather, they were those where we connected two cups together with a string, and then put our mouth into the cup to talk, while at the other end, the receiver put the ear into the cup to try and hear what the sender said..LOL. Those were our cheap (or rather free) play phones we used to call one another.