The Telephones
@jahernandezrivas (11288)
United States
May 12, 2011 9:58am CST
I want to talk about telephones, L.O.L.
,I remember when I was little and I was visiting my grand parents and I remember the old black rotary phone they had, and how long the cord was you could go all over the house with that old phone, he he he, I was thinking do you remember how long the cords were to the old rotary dial phones
Where you could go all over the house and even outside the house too!! Then there were the purple and see through phones that all the teenagers just had to have! Then came along the cordless phone where you can go anywhere but when you did if you went to far you would loose the signal, L.O.L., And now the cell phones have went to cheap to better and better. I was just thinking about how time goes so fast and things change in technology so fast! What did we do back then when all we had was a rotary phone with a long cord and a boxed black and whit t.v. and smaller phone and electric bills? What a good time then!!![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@petersum (4522)
• United States
12 May 11
I remember those black phones well, but I can't recall how long the cord was. You just couldn't destroy those. Drop it on the floor and you damaged the floor rather than the phone. I wonder how many people were killed by those phones. Must be some - "hit by a blunt weapon"! They make today's phones look like toys.
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@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
12 May 11
L.O.L. Damage the floor not the phone!!
I hope no one was ever killed by one that would be sad.
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@sswallace21 (1824)
• United States
14 May 11
Oh yes the good ol' days. It always appeared that those rotary phones were centrally located in the homes so you could travel all over the house. The cords always got twisted up in a knot. I loved it when grandma got off the phone and I would hang the handle upside down and watch it untangle. It would just spin and spin, faster and faster. It just made me laugh.
Unfortunately, the kids these days don' know what they missed out on. The tv's with the bunny ears. I bet the kids don't even know what bunny ears are. They can watch tv on their phones. Best Wishes!
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@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
14 May 11
L.O.L. That was funny!!!
I bet the kids don't know anything about anything like all that you are
so right!!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
13 May 11
I have a memory of a big black dial phone from childhood and I also recall having a phone with a really long cord which used to run down the passage all the way to my room whenever my boyfriend was on the line! The first cordless phones had those big long antennas that you had to adjust as you moved around the house. These days they are definitely getting smaller and smaller. I wonder if they’ll be able to drill a cell phone in our teeth in the near future….Lol!![](/Content/images/emotes/happy.gif)
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@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
13 May 11
L.O.L.
You never know they could maybe do that the way technology is coming along!!!![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
12 May 11
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@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
12 May 11
I remember before the cordless and cell phone was not even around too, yes they have come a long way.![](/Content/images/emotes/happy.gif)
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
12 May 11
lol I remember stretching it so far that the poor cord was so thin that one day it snapped because I guess the plastic cover wore out and the fibers snapped apart.
I also remember cooking and going back and forth and accidentally wrapping the cord all around me. It was a wonder I never strangled myself. But yes they were very reliable though. Although mine were not rotary mine were button and still the cord had to be replaced several times.
@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
12 May 11
I remember that too being in the kitchen and the cord going all kinds of ways and around the neck too!! L.O.L.![](/Content/images/emotes/lol.gif)
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@saraliuisme (33)
• China
13 May 11
yes, i rememberd these days, remember my family installed the telephone at first time and i was so excited, nearly 5 years later, the cellphone was become popular and put the communication is very easy. its great
@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
13 May 11
It is great how technology keeps gett
ing better and better!!!
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