Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

DarkGamer@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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