and Mrs. Fortune had a great post today on the nostalgia of lost tech. For her it was the memories of a rotary telephone. That got me to thinking about all of the phones that our family owned.
When we moved into the house where my parents now live, I was in 2nd grade and rotary phones were the norm (and in our area so were party lines). But the great thing about our town was that we only had to dial 5 numbers for a call anywhere in our town.
I cannot tell you how great it was for a kid to not have to dial those extra two numbers!! Then they came out with cordless phones (these phones had push buttons but still dialed. You know if you pushed 2 there were two clicks, if you pushed 6 there were 6 clicks, etc...). What really sucked about these phones was that if you pushed the buttons too fast the machine would get confused and lock up while dialing.
The reaaaaally great thing about the original cordless phones is that you could listen into conversations with a radio! And at the time this was still possible, my older brother was entering that phase in life where sex with his girlfriend was more an actual fact and not a wet dream.
Even better was if one had a radio that had a tape recorder/player built into the unit, then one had blackmail material for years and years!
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