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  To: Kurt Weiske
  Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
  By: Kurt Weiske to T.J. Mcmillen on Fri May 13 2022 07:21 am

 > -=> T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
 >
 >  KW>  More phone trivia, area codes were designed so that the most populous
 >  KW>  areas had the lowest numbers, because they were dialed on a rotary
 >  KW>  phone and would be dialed more often. Compare New York (212), Los
 >  KW>  Angeles (213), Hawaii (808) and Alaska (907).
 >
 >  TM> That's interesting to know.
 >
 > I wonder how many people here had dialed a rotary phone on a regular
 > basis. No voicemail. No redial.
 >
 > Growing up, we had one desk phone in the family room and one wall
 > phone in the kitchen. The kitchen phone was yellow to match the decor.
 >
 > Welcome to the 1970s.

my grandmother still had an old green at&t phone she RENTED from the phone
company.  these blood suckers were still charging her money every month for
this piece of shit rotary phone.  this was until 1994.  my grandfather was a
gadget freak so he had speakerphone before everyone else and wireless phones. 
they just grew attached to that big hunk of green and yellow plastic.

dialing one of those sucked. if you made a mistake you'd have to go back to
cranking away
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