You probably grew up in the age of rotary phones too, hu? The last one I used was only … uh… 35 years ago, I think.
DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 months ago
remotelove@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An old hack that not many knew was that you could tap the hang up switch to dial numbers. Example, tap 3 times = 3, tap 10 times = 0.
Rotary phones did the same thing which is why you had to wait for the whole thing to spin back, it was tapping the line to dial out.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Trainer at my Judo club used that to call my parents with the gym-phone that had its disc locked with a padlock, when I got injured. He was great.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I’m pretty old and even have a camera that uses these things, and took a class on photography; never heard them called a shoe. 🤷🏻♂️