the question is: who woke up the knocker upper?

@yousefalnahar2567

5 жыл бұрын

Ori Shahar another knocker upper

@orishahar

5 жыл бұрын

Tiqonn OW then who woke up that one?

@prashank

5 жыл бұрын

Ori Shahar person who didn’t sleep

@gautamdhangar2780

5 жыл бұрын

There mom. "Wake up you Id...t go and crack some widow glass."

@vonfunk9523

5 жыл бұрын

who knocked up the knocker upper.

My mother used to be a switchboard operator, and she's only 62 - she was kind of offended when we were in a history museum and there was a switchboard just like she used to use, haha

@The_True_one

4 жыл бұрын

My mother was also a switchboard operator. Which history museum was this?

@jegeriufanen4415

4 жыл бұрын

My great aunt too, she said they would listen to the conversations, but she would tune out cause they were really boring

@pipmitchell7059

4 жыл бұрын

I worked a switchboard (badly) in the 60s when I had a summer job as a hotel receptionist. And I'm with T's mother too - perfectly normal, everyday stuff classed as antiques? C'mon!

@michaeldawson6309

4 жыл бұрын

I'm 58 and the telephone equipment I started out as an apprentice on in 1981 Strowger is also in a Museum :-) I also have one of those first mobile phones I recovered from a skip back in 92 is now a collectors piece. I think programming the video recorder was harder than my job now as a cyber consultant.

@LoveAlwaysAlwaysLove

4 жыл бұрын

@@The_True_one Downtown L.A. not mom, my sister!

I wonder if “big ice” campaigned against refrigerators.

@Tanktitcian

4 жыл бұрын

Cool though

@mytech6779

4 жыл бұрын

"Big ice" was the first to buy refrigeration units. They were big complex machines only economical for large operations. Many people still had ice boxes and ice delivery for decades after that.

@alphagt62

3 жыл бұрын

I forget all the details, but the railroad created the ice industry. Ships carried it too, but it was the railroads that allowed ice to get to every small town and whistle stop in the US. They built huge warehouses that were double walled, and filled with sawdust and they stacked it full of ice from the Great Lakes. Double walled train cars did the same, and they put blocks of ice in train cars of perishable items. Then they started to carry train cars of ice to sell the ice. But, then a southerner invented refrigeration. And ice plants popped up in every small town. These ice plants still loaded train cars, but they also sold ice locally, and the ice from the Great Lakes was suddenly worthless. Ice could be made all year round and they didn’t suffer such great losses during the summer. Originally they had to cut about 4 times as much ice as they sold, so it would last all Summer. It was probably the late 50’s or early 60’s before they stopped selling ice door to door, and people bought refrigerator freezers for their homes, in numbers that eliminated the need for door to door ice. I recall the local ice plant in the town I live in was operating after I was married in the early 80’s, they made the ice sold at stores or you could go buy large blocks of it at the plant. Now, I think the bags of ice we see at local stores are made by a machine, that makes those round ice pieces we now see, no large plant is needed. And refrigerated train cars and trucks took all their business away. My father worked in an ice plant when he was younger, and it’s fascinating how it worked, a large pool of salt water was chilled to 28 degrees in a roof top evaporator, and metal tubs of fresh water were lowered into it, an overhead hoist lifted them out after a day and 300 pound blocks were made.

@otakuman706

3 жыл бұрын

@@alphagt62 a bit old, but thought I'd say thanks for that comment, some interesting points I hadn't thought about or looked into.

@alphagt62

3 жыл бұрын

otakuman706 thanks! I think I saw a TV special about it on PBS, that’s where I learned all those details.

"Imagine getting home from a pub in pitch black because there are no streetlights" yeah, I've been to Scotland

@KaeYoss

3 жыл бұрын

Scotland must have changed quite a lot recently then. I never heard of anyone in Scotland actually going home from a pub.

@PMA65537

3 жыл бұрын

@@KaeYoss When I was a student in Scotland the pubs closed at 2230 (instead of 2300 so a lot of English students got caught out by the closing time).

@isharkey8454

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Scotland, it's pretty crap, so I moved to Bangkok. It gets dark at 18h30 every day, most of the side streets have very few lights and a lot of them don't have pavements. Oddly enough they call the place 'The city of Light'.

@emmaharkins

3 жыл бұрын

I’m Scottish 🥺 do other places have more light?

@almachizit3207

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmaharkins everywhere else has more light than you

In college I worked at a video store, then later in a photo lab developing film. Now I'm a newspaper editor. So, yeah. I'm just going to tell my grandkids I was a pirate and a cowboy. It'll be easier than trying to explain to them that photos used to come on strips of chemically-treated celluloid, Netflix was a building with VHS cassettes in it and we printed out Google News on paper and delivered it to people's houses each morning.

@RezwanNavide

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think future generation are somehow braindead about older technologies. Like we know how a telegraph works also we totally get technologies from the 1900s even 1800s. Your kids and grandkids will surely understand the technology we have today.

@calamusgladiofortior2814

5 жыл бұрын

@@RezwanNavide I know, I was just making a joke at my own expense. Apparently I like careers in fields which are on the cusp of becoming obsolete.

@JeremiahDouglas

5 жыл бұрын

@@calamusgladiofortior2814 yar MATEY why don't you swab my poop deck=). BUT yeah im a truck driver right now and another 6 or 7 years when robo trucks are the thing ill be out of the job as well=(

@calamusgladiofortior2814

5 жыл бұрын

Jeremiah Douglas Yeah, I read a report this week saying up to 25% of jobs in the U.S. are vulnerable to being replaced by automation of various sorts with current or emerging technology. I guess I might not be the only one taking up the pirate life. Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum... ;)

@agustinvenegas5238

5 жыл бұрын

Have you considered getting into shipping freight? As youre collecting soon-to-be dead careers apparently

So a child would escort an adult home with a torch, then he'd extinguish the torch and walk back alone in the dark. 🤦

@solardale715

5 жыл бұрын

After your tenth kid (no condoms) kids were kind of disposable, kids ran the streets, if they did not come home, there was another kid already on it way out the baby canal. just the way it was.

@DamnedSilly

5 жыл бұрын

@@solardale715 , of course 6 of your first 8 died before they turned 4, so I guess you got used to them being disposable. Similar tradition from back in the day: You have a son. You name him John. John dies within the first few months. You have another son. You name him John. John dies a couple years later. You have a son. You name him John. He lives long enough for you to have another son. You name him Jim.

@joescott

5 жыл бұрын

When they weren't doing that, they were setting off explosives in coal mines.

@mildlifeisatrisk5727

5 жыл бұрын

Humanity has the maternal instinct of a... a... welp, not much, literally any animal I'm thinking of is more protective.

@nightmarionetteprimordial3580

5 жыл бұрын

I love this comment!

When I was a boy I wanted to be an elevator operator. The uniform was so smart, and it seemed the height of glamour to ride up and down in a department store all day.

My dad gets super tense if someone keeps the refrigerator door open for 5 seconds, I can imagine him freaking out guarding those ice boxes

The plugs used for switchboards gave us the guitar jack and by evolving smaller, the earphone jack.

@royponpon1755

4 жыл бұрын

It's also why the individual wires on an ethernet connection are designated "Tx" and "Rx". Alot of people now believe that it stands for "Transmit" and "Recieve", but it dosen't and never really did. The "T" stands for the contact at the "Tip" of the jack. The "R" stands for the "Ring" contact near the base of the jack. And the "x" is a variable place holder for the number of the jack. So jack #1 on a switchboard would have two wires designated "T1" and "R1" connected to it.

@Sabeximus

4 жыл бұрын

And now we have Bluetooth.

@jenniferpiper4293

3 жыл бұрын

Yielded many early plugs. We still use a similar version on the spark plug cables used in combustion vehicles.

@NewsBytesOnYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

@@royponpon1755 It would be more correct to say that this 'may' be where the Tx/Rx terminology originated, but this isn't what it means. Tx == transmit, Rx == receive, in electrical engineering anyway (which is where the ethernet discipline sits). You're right to say that, with jack plugs (the jack is the female by the way, the plug is the male) at least, Tx means Tip.x and Rx means Ring.x, but that doesn't translate to electrical engineering 'just' because they use the same symbol.

@vickielawson3114

3 жыл бұрын

Adrian, that's why their still called phone plugs/jacks to this day.

My grandmother was a phone operator, she is still alive at 92 yrs God bless her.

@xnotasweatx

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@sinistrality7883

2 жыл бұрын

That is epic.

@dontworryaboutit4255

2 жыл бұрын

My great grandma was a dispatcher for CHP for 45+ years. She retired and has her name on a gold placer under her picture from youth. I think it's so cool.

I remember when I was a little girl in Glasgow, Scotland watching the gas lighters light the street lamps.

When I was very young (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) my father's company had a switchboard. I was so impressed when I saw it that I made one out of two shoe boxes and pencils tied on twine. Ah yes, the good old days.

people use to scan your groceries and put in a bag for you

@christinakohl6111

4 жыл бұрын

At least the bagger was never a thing i germany as far as i know. I always thought it was just an american thing.

@kevinfox2051

4 жыл бұрын

And before scanners were invented there were price stickers on each item and the cashier would key in the price. Then the cashier made change WITHOUT a calculator. The bagger also helped you load your car.

@scottfirman

4 жыл бұрын

I asked for a raise at WalMart last time I was in there scanning my own shit. I refuse to shop there and when I do, I got to a warm body behind the till, that way I have human proof I paid for my purchase when they try to accost me when I leave.

@humorouspickle8827

4 жыл бұрын

Although the company’s will probably keep it around a bit longer because people could steal things a bit easier, and some people like talking to the cashiers and baggers, I am a bagger myself and many people have short conversations with us and like to discuss certain things going on, I enjoy that and they do to, obviously it’s going to be taken out eventually but it’ll be around longer than say a trucker or something like that, but yea you’re right

@fabianweber6937

4 жыл бұрын

@@humorouspickle8827 you do know how essential truck drivers are ?

A more recently disappeared job is typesetters. In fact there's a whole lineup of jobs related to commercial printing that have gone - typesetters, paste-up artists, color separators, negative strippers, platemakers, etc. In the days before offset printing took over, typesetters worked on giant hot type machines that cast molten metal into lines of typography. And before that, typesetters would assemble lines of type by plucking metal slugs out of bins and assembling them in a composing stick. In fact there are still artisanal printers who do this. But once upon a time, this was how all type got done. It may sound laborious (and it was), but it was still much faster than copying books by hand.

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

News papers will soon be gone!

@jamesdougcheryl

4 жыл бұрын

My first job in printing I did negative stripping and plate making. My Dad was a pin setter in high school.

My grandmother actually experienced the ice cutters era, she said that she remembers her father bringing home big ice cubes for them to use home. Pretty cool that she was able to experience it

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

All in all it wasnt that long ago, if he was born before the 1940s or on a poorer country than the united states or England she most likely experienced it, i still remember that lovecraft made a book about this terrible and terrifying new invention called air conditioner

@forsaken9676

2 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 Yeah we live in a caribbean island and her father owned a shop so she was able to see it happen often.

@HarryBuddhaPalm

2 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 I remember a Three Stooges short where they were ice delivery guys and they had to take a big block of ice up a super steep set of stairs. Hilarity ensued. That was made in the 1930's, so not even a century ago.

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarryBuddhaPalm Yeah in 50 years people will question when watching a movie from today why there are some guys without arms and legs why not just get some cybernetic prosthetics? or why is everyone driving their cars did they not had self driving cars on the early 2000s? Just like how we now look weird at 2005 movies because of the lack of smarthphones and the not total and absolute prevalece of the internet we have now a days

@Svveet69

Жыл бұрын

my grandmother grew up in Erie Pennsylvania where they had a ice farm. They would cut up the ice fill a barn with ice and hay. She told me they use to sneak into the ice barn all the time.

There was a time when several houses shared the same phone number. It was called a party line. You could listen in on other peoples conversations and if you picked up the phone and someone was on the line, you’d have to wait your turn.

@tessat338

Жыл бұрын

Also, if you wanted to make a long-distance phone call or trunk call, you'd have to ask your local telephone operator to make the call to the call recipient's local switchboard, where their operator would then call that line and see if the person were available, then call back your operator to connect you. Your operator would then call you and connect the two of you together. This is why long-distance calls were so expensive, because they were so labor-intensive. I can personally remember long-distance calls from phone booths where the operator would tell you how much change to put into the phone for a very short call duration. If you ran out of time, the operator would cut in and tell you to deposit more change. If you listen to Jim Croce's "Operator" you get the idea of what really happened.

"I can remember when it was the law that you had to keep your hands on the steering wheel in your automated car because people didn't trust computers to drive..."

@L4JP

4 жыл бұрын

Response: "What's a steering wheel?"

@DASPRiD

4 жыл бұрын

@@ezicarus8216 What are cars?

@inomad1313

4 жыл бұрын

What are computers? We are one. Resistance is futile.

@hassanhdez794

4 жыл бұрын

lol exactly

@silentecho422

4 жыл бұрын

Light For Japan Productions I saw somewhere a woman was talking about the moment she realized she was now old was when she told her kid to hang up the phone. The kid turned to her and asked why do y'all say that...she realized the kids now have never had to hang up a phone and the phrase was outdated we are old Hahahah

I think grocery store cashiers. We already have self check out lanes, I think in the future all the lanes will be automatic.

@twn5858

5 жыл бұрын

If you get rid of those fucking weight scale things. I always need a cashier to reset that because something is going wrong with it.

@TheRealYasri

5 жыл бұрын

It will come sooner then you think, just RFID tag(smaller then a grain of rice) every product. Then people just push their kart thru a machine which scans everything as it goes thru and gives you the total. Once walmart thinks it will save them money in the states, they will implement it and it will force everyone else to do it, if they want to try to stay competitive. www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1146015

@paris466

5 жыл бұрын

Along with the people who stock the shelves. Someday you'll walk into a store and there will be maybe 1 or 2 actual human beings

@FlorestanTrement

5 жыл бұрын

@@twn5858 The machine could just weight what you took from the stands.

@dr.zoidberg8666

5 жыл бұрын

@@paris466 It might interest you to know, SparksFly, that I have a little bit of insight to your comment as I was working at a big retail store just a month ago. Large-scale automation is certainly in the works. The company that I worked for was already showing off the robots that they had which could scan the shelves, determine picks, check top-stock, & identify plugged products completely autonomously. Furthermore, they had robots that could unload trucks without any human intervention. These were both being tested in stores somewhere in the US. In fact, during the time that I worked at that store, they tested out a "scan & go" system, in which the customer would carry around a scanner while shopping, scan their object, & then simply pay their money & leave, spending almost no time at the already automated check out counter (the problem with that is the store has a very outdated client tracking infrastructure, so they couldn't figure out how to stop people from stealing without hiring more people). More to the point, the system that they're trying to push the hardest is an Online Grocery Pickup system, in which the customer places an order online, an employee goes out into the store & gets everythign for them, then they drive by & pick everything up without ever entering the store at all. Some stores within that same company, I've been told, have been doing the same but with a delivery system (ripe for automation in the coming years itself) as well. Basically, the wet dream for these retail companies is to transform their stores into warehouses -- one with no customers & as few workers as possible: stocked & organized by bots with customers picking their stuff up like a drive-through fast food restaurant, or having it delivered. & I'd say that, by in large, they can probably achieve their goal within the next 10-15 years.

One of my older uncles was an "Ice Man" back in the early 1900s. He had a special wagon that was packed with straw and rice hulls, lined with canvas. He would get up before dawn and ride to the ice house, pick up a load ice blocks, and then deliver it to houses on his route.

Future: people used to work at automated food stops. They called it fast food back then

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

Fast food will still most likely exist, it will all just be automated and you will be able to call for food from your smarth phone that will be delivered vía drone at your door, but i'm certain restaurants will still be a thing since they arent exactly a place to get food easier but they are more places to go out with friends or family

@robcampbell3235

2 жыл бұрын

Automats....what is old is new again...

2069: Me: Back in the days, Joe Scott was a famous KZreadr! My grandkid: What the hell is a KZreadr?

@libzbond

4 жыл бұрын

2070: Me:Back in the days, my friend was a soldier! My grandchild: What on earth is a soldier? we have drones grandpa, we don't need soldiers.

@lilhoss2627

4 жыл бұрын

Yooo if my grandbaby cussed at me, I'd smack their ass into the next century 😂😂

@iain8829

4 жыл бұрын

@@lilhoss2627 I hate you

@salmon2518

4 жыл бұрын

@@iain8829 you dont need to the kid would probably call child services and he would get his ass whooped

@AlexM-xj7qd

4 жыл бұрын

Who's Joe?

I teach computer design among other things, and when I tell my students to save their work by pushing the button with the floppy disk on it, 70 to 80% have no idea what I'm talking about...

@dragoola69x

5 жыл бұрын

floppy disk drives when floppy really ment FLOPPY had to have a folder just to keep them in so thay WOULD not flop around

@idkwhattoputhere4695

4 жыл бұрын

I told what the save icon actually is to my friend and he didn’t even know what a floppy disk was.

@noahpaulette1490

4 жыл бұрын

He'll I'm 16 and I know what a floppy disk is I'll probably chalk that up to my interest in old technology though

@southsidemke3298

4 жыл бұрын

My experience goes back even a bit further. When I first started with computers, they were activated by either punch cards or perforated tape on big reels.

@amazingsupergirl7125

4 жыл бұрын

Wow haha!

As a 6 year old in the 1960s, I still remember my aunt having and ice-box. She had a regular refrigerator but still had an ice-box in the car-port. I clearly recall my uncle Rick putting several big blocks of ice in it on the day before Thanksgiving to help preserve pies and stuff she had made.

@tessat338

Жыл бұрын

My husband's aunt remembers buying a block of ice in Arizona and putting it in a cage on the outside of the driver's side of their rental car before driving through the Arizona desert.

Who remembers when a gas station attendant would pump your gas for you?

@BoTwerdowsky

4 жыл бұрын

I do, it was several hours ago. I live in New Jersey.

@DIANAS5657

4 жыл бұрын

Roland White And clean your windshield 🤗

@dunmermage

4 жыл бұрын

Uhhh... you mean, like, today? I don't think I *ever* saw a gas station without attendants.

@wickedcoolname399

4 жыл бұрын

@@dunmermage You must live in New Jersey. The rest of the country has self service gas stations. Evidently, New Jersey doesn't trust it's citizens with guns or gas.

@Mithrilluin

4 жыл бұрын

@@BoTwerdowsky When we moved out of state Mom had to learn to pump gas, lol!

I'll be able to tell my grandkids that I used to deliver food when I was younger. I wonder which will shock them more: that it took a human to deliver food (or anything) or that they will know someone who knows how to drive all by themselves.

Think you hit it on the head a few videos ago....maybe 50 years from now people will look back and think we were crazy by not having cars drive on their own. Also, today, new drivers do not know the stuggle of pulling over and following road maps to get to your destination and folding those bad boys up again.

@NickRoman

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was never good at that.

@gordonlawrence4749

5 жыл бұрын

The only way to fold a map is differently.

@Alex-uy7pc

5 жыл бұрын

God help us all of somebody didn't fold dad's map up right. No bs in the late 80s my brother borrowed the car to goto a merchant marine open house thing. Except henwent to visit his gf at college. 2 things my brother didn't know. 1. She found a bf in every state she visited :( 2. You forget your aliby and cover-up when your figure out your h.s. sweetie is stupting someone else. Lucky for him someone tipped off my dad what happened and he was more disappointed at Jessica then my brother. Man, I never thought I would miss those days. My brother passed on since. Appreciate your teens and 20s, its cleche but true that you'll most likely miss that time the most.

@domusdebellum3042

5 жыл бұрын

imagine having to control your speed with the throttle instead of the push of a button.

@GhostOfBillCooper

5 жыл бұрын

People are worried because so many jobs will disappear in the next 30-50 years as AI becomes more sophisticated no career path will be is safe. Not even programing or computer repair will be safe. Society will have to fundamentally change at some point.

My great Aunt was a switchboard operator for BellSouth. She was management by the time she retired. It must have been so neat to actually be there for all the changes in technology. She passed away in 2010 at age 83 and she never stopped being fascinated by the world around her.

I am an older person now and I did three of these jobs in my life time; Pinsetter, Elevator Operator and Switch Board Operator. Man, I sure do miss the Good Old Days.

Cab/bus drivers for sure will be a thing of the past.

@jegeriufanen4415

4 жыл бұрын

Wiledex there already are auto metro trains

@georgewilliamson5667

4 жыл бұрын

Same with truck drivers. I have a friend from high school who became a truck driver, and when we asked him why he wanted to do it he said it was because he wanted the ability to say to his grandchildren that he was one of the last truckers.

@Ehralur

4 жыл бұрын

I think every type of chauffeur. Truck drivers, pizza or package delivery people, transport drivers, etc.

@veralenora4033

4 жыл бұрын

When street lights were first put in there were some who hoped the lights would end all street crime ...

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

4 жыл бұрын

I think taxis are going to be around for a while longer.

In the 50s my family lived near a factory that sounded a siren early in the morning to wake up the workers - who lived where they could hear the siren and walk to work.

@richardp444

3 жыл бұрын

My in laws live in Guyana where an alarm currently tells everyone in the sugar cane fields different specific times.

Link boys, I literally can picture Link showing up in his green tunic to help me navigate through the forest. I hope he's upgraded to a tempered sword.

I worked as a "pinsetter" in the early 60's although the title in for the job was "pin monkey" back then. It was probably the last of the non-automated bowling alleys in NYC. It was a combination bowling alley pool hall and bar. It didn't really require any great skill, you just had to be fast and small so you could get out of the way. Of course it was illegal for a kid to be doing it since the law back then forbade minors being in pool halls or bars without being accompanied by an adult. I think I lasted three weeks until my parents found out.

My family on my moms side ran an ice cutting business back in the day, they owned huge amounts of land with lakes that they cut ice from in the winter.

I am 59 and remember ICE boxes in Canada. My great uncle used one in the country. I was so curious he showed me the storage building not far from the cottage. I think it was in 1965.

@buckodonnghaile4309

5 жыл бұрын

They used to pull the iceblocks out of the lake (with what looks like draft horses from the pics I've seen) about 100 feet from my dock up here in central Ontario. When they tore down the ice house and blacksmith shop my wife's grandpa and great grandpa salvaged a boatload (literally) of lumber and built the boatsheds out of it.

@BaronVonQuiply

5 жыл бұрын

I still use ice. I fill up a few 2ltr bottles with water and then leave them outside to freeze. Usually they'll supercool so when you pick them up they're still liquid until you give them a smack and watch the wave of ice crystallization move through the bottle. Then they sit in my fridge for a few days before going back out to freeze again. I don't think I'm saving any tremendous amount of power, but it's very little effort to be more sustainable and that electricity can light my house thanks to modern LEDs.

@alecgrolimond1678

5 жыл бұрын

@Ian M Hello Ian. Canada can have warm / hot summers!

@skaltura

5 жыл бұрын

@Ian M Even here in Finland there is 1 special day each year which is not that cold, apparently there is supposed to be 4 seasons of the year? ;)

@BaronVonQuiply

5 жыл бұрын

@@skaltura Back when I was younger, if Summer came on a weekend we'd have a picnic.

I'd love to see the episode for ice, i actually had a conversation with my 89 year old grandmother about it once. Love to know the full story

I’m in the printing trade and so was my father and grandfather and it’s pretty amazing and scary how many jobs have disappeared from that industry in as little as 40 years

When my grandma was a kid in France (in the late 40s), there was a milk guy who would deliver milk in glass bottles. You would put the empty bottles outside your house with coins in them and the guy would collect them early in the morning and change them with full bottles. There were also guys going from villages to villages to sharpen your tools. She said they used to walk around and they had a small trailer pulled by a German shepherd with sharpening tools inside. This is just hilarious!

@bipedalbob

4 жыл бұрын

Yup I remember the milkman and the breadman, in the 60's in Canada.

@foxy126pl6

Жыл бұрын

There were used until the 80s or maybe even 90s in Poland, you see them in the 80s movies

@raibeartmacphadrain

Жыл бұрын

Milk men were still a thing all over Britain right up until the mid 2000’s. Nowadays the dairy will go around in a van and a few young lads will jump out and deliver the milk. Is it really that archaic elsewhere in the world?

@KonradTheWizzard

7 ай бұрын

Those tool sharpening guys were still a thing in Germany a couple of years ago - about twice a year I had a little flyer of one of those traveling sharpeners among my snail mail spam. I guess he went out of business because I preferred to go to the local knife shop who has better quality equipment.

- My dad was a professional knocker-up. - Did he go around a wake up people? - What you talking about?

@thirtythreeflavors

4 жыл бұрын

That joke is also sexual.

@uncleartax

4 жыл бұрын

If only you could make it a profession nfl players would be in the Bloomberg 500

@djhookflores7369

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh... The evolution of the knocker upper

I was a pin setter when I was around 12 to 14! It was awesome! The second pic you had up was what it was like for me. I had a specific team I set for (I don't remember their name), and they paid me $20 plus tips to set once a week, twice a week during the summers a few times and on a couple of special occasions. I had a lot of fun with the other kids. I need to see if it's still there, I still live nearby! I'm 37 for reference.

Joe’s Grandpa was once a pinsetter, and my Great-Grandpa was an Ice Cutter. The IceHouse was conveniently located near the train depot, and the clear lake was about a half-mile down the main road. Not a rich man, but supported the family in the early 1900’s this way in the winter. Summers were filled with carpentry, which ensured a relationship with the local sawmill for the much needed sawdust to insulate the ice throughout the summer and fall, in central Wisconsin. Some of the ice saws and other tools are now on display as part of a mural in this small town of ~300 residents.

I worked in a building in the mid 80's that still had a manual elevator with an operator during the open hours. When I worked outside of those hours I had to operate the elevator myself. It definitely look some finesse to get it lined up just right.

Small correction, Joe. The Knocker-Upper job still exists. Only I don't use a pea shooter, I've moved up to .50 BMG so I can do my route from home. As you can imagine, business has been rather slow lately..

@sebione3576

5 жыл бұрын

I'll send you a list of names addresses to "knock up"

@MrEmeraldviking

5 жыл бұрын

Switch to drones.... With scary clown faces...

@PCLHH

5 жыл бұрын

I'm also still doing that job. I moved up from pea shooter to 138 db of Ramstein everymorning at about 5 am... The neibours are never late for work anymore.

@BaronVonQuiply

5 жыл бұрын

@@PCLHH Du... Du Hast... Du Hast To Du Hast To Get Up Now.

@DFX2KX

5 жыл бұрын

This comment reminded me of an incident that I am far too proud to have been peripherally involved in. An asshole neighbor was put in place, no sound ordinances where violated, and reverie was involved. And a 1/2 scale cannon. Good times....

I have been BINGE watching your videos lately, and I'm OBSESSED! Your videos are great, and the way you talk about these subjects always lures me into them more! Love, love, love it! Definitely my favourite youtube channel :D

Pin setters: I was a pin setter for a few weeks around 1956. I was a 10 year old kid living on Guam. Nearby where we lived was a Navy base that had a bowling alley and setting up pins was done manually. There was a rack with a slot for each pin that I would have to load with fallen pins. After each bowling ball knocked down a few pins I would have have to jump down into a pit and pick up the fallen pins and drop them into a slot in the pin rack - making sure I was out of the way before the next ball came down the lane. Once the rack was full it was lowered to the floor with a long lever/arm. Any pins that hadn’t been knocked down had to be picked up and put in the rack so they were all aligned properly. Eventually I got bored doing it and wandered off to do something else.

Isn't it funny how we still say we "dial" a telephone number, when most phones haven't had dials for decades

@bipedalbob

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of people still refer to video recording of something as taping. Even audio recordings are still called taped.

@jenniferpiper4293

3 жыл бұрын

"Dialing in" is more of a honing concept used to input precise, position coordinates. In the case of telephones, a specific telephone number sequence. But the term "dial" became a noun as well when we started using circular controls to access points on a numerical or band width scale. ie a sun dial (older ref.), a radio dial, the dials used to affect trajectory, television dials. It was originally used only as a verb until these things came into public use. We like our Dials, they are everywhere still today!

@GrosvnerMcaffrey

3 жыл бұрын

Just like even though we don't use tapes people still say rewind

@agerven

3 жыл бұрын

There's sufficient stuff and stories in phones with actual dials and how to hack them for a new video. Joe?

@PMA65537

3 жыл бұрын

@@agerven That's more of a kzread.info/dron/y0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKGfxNedh8W3aaQ.html

Here in Glasgow, Scotland there's still some guys who shout aloud to sell newspapers on the street, there's not many now, I feel that will be something of the past, as well as the newspaper industry as a whole.

@neoscylax

5 жыл бұрын

The Capacitor when I first moved to Leeds in ‘96 they had Yorkshire post sellers on every street corner shouting “Eeeevnin post”. They’re nowhere to be seen now. Shame really. Rag and Bone men were also fairly common still back then, of course they would shout “Any old iron!?” While driving past with their horse and wagon. I thought it was weird then but when you (very rarely) see it now it’s truly bizarre- straight out of an episode of steptoe and son!

As a machinist I have seen crazy automation that has taken the entire departments from 20 people to 1 using robotic arms to load machines

I was a switchboard operator in 1995 as the military compound I worked in did not allow people to call directly to people within the compound.

joe watching you has brought me alot of peace these past few months and i just wanted to take a second and say thanks,

@Diamond.H.514

2 жыл бұрын

I thank you too Joe ☺️

"He doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells."

@robertwoko4395

5 жыл бұрын

I cant believe Joe did not catch that and give you a heart,lol

@devilsadvocate8900

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertwoko4395 I'm just glad anybody noticed it and understood.

@TheUserid82

5 жыл бұрын

I still think it was funny how the Schwarzenegger was a past president who was first governor of California.

@brianward7550

4 жыл бұрын

😅

@youclogthemweclearthem2394

4 жыл бұрын

Now that's funny as I myself sit on the toilet lol

"They took ourrr jeerbbbss!"

There's actually a music venue in Phoenix Arizona called "The Icehouse" because back in the day it was an ice house. In a city that sees multiple 110f+ days during the summer, with 115f to 120f not being out of the question. That's 45c with 48c to 50c on the most brutal days, for our metric friends 😎

@leahwilson56

2 жыл бұрын

It makes me feel good about our heat waves here in Australia 👍

Fun fact, ice was also created by filling shallow reflective pools with water. At night the convention process would freeze the water, even when the temperature was above freezing.

@archenema6792

5 жыл бұрын

I award you Coolest Factoid for this video.

@Obscurai

5 жыл бұрын

Black ice is the bane of drivers in northern climates. Two or three degrees above freezing and there's a film of unseen ice on the roads by late evening. Horrible stuff.

@Serastrasz

5 жыл бұрын

Freezing happens because of radiation, not convection. At night, the radiation temperature of the clear sky can be up to -60 in perfect conditions. This means any upward facing surface gets colder then the ambient air temperature around it. Increased convection actually reduces this effect, warming it back up closer to air temperature. As a general rule, a clear sky makes the roads about 7° colder, so beware of any air temperature below 7°. Clouds absorb this effect.

@archenema6792

5 жыл бұрын

@@Serastrasz Are you challenging Mr Ortiz for the Coolest Factoid award? Very well then, swords at the ready gentlemen, and.........begin!

@unvergebeneid

4 жыл бұрын

@@Serastrasz Thanks, the OP made no sense to me but your explanation does make sense.

My father grew up in Newcastle (northern England) and he told me about knockers. His father was a coal trimmer for the local shipyard. As I recall it was the shipyard who paid for the service.

How about years from now they think it is funny that we manually drive a car ourselves. LOL. Great video as always Joe!

@JoeScott: By a longshot, nearly every source that I've read says that "hold a candle to" comes from where a craftsman's apprentice's job would be to illuminate a shaded work area. This makes 100x more sense than the link-boy explanation.

putting Fuel in your car will be hilarious in the Future

@Jens.Krabbe

5 жыл бұрын

@Davvy Jannes Plugging it in??? Don't kid me, mister. Whoever heard of such preposterous thing? If I had a car, and god forbid why should I even own one?, I would never interfere with the contactless charging, or the ability for the car to go charge up itself when needed. Silly concept that.

@janglobus9384

5 жыл бұрын

Style and Statements too sadly:/

@sleeknub

5 жыл бұрын

Beyond hilarious...probably considered pretty disgusting as well.

@OnePlancheMan

5 жыл бұрын

@Davvy Jannes dude I think Jens was being sarcastic...

@TSNVibes

5 жыл бұрын

@xxxJesus666xxx the future will be all electric and autonomous, so no more "putting fuel."

We have an elevator operator here. Last man standing. He’s been doing it for 50 years.

@wickedcoolname399

4 жыл бұрын

It's a good business if you get in on the ground floor.

@boxedfender4810

4 жыл бұрын

@@wickedcoolname399 it has its ups and downs I imagine....

@malikfaisal416

4 жыл бұрын

@@boxedfender4810 really elevating story

@guitarhurricaine

4 жыл бұрын

Jim McCracken in a small town in southern Oregon.

@catherinespark

4 жыл бұрын

Has he gone up or down in the world?

Very well-insulated with sawdust. My family got our own ice in the cellar there was an extra deep part that would be filled up with ice and sawdust about 15 ft by 15 ft by 10ft I believe.

"I wish I had a phone, I wish I had a home, to have one in, if I did have one on"....actual lyric from a song circa 1997, which this video made me think of

@MattH-wg7ou

4 жыл бұрын

If I had a million bucks, Id still be out robbing armored trucks.

First thing I thought of was the telephone switchboard operators. I work for the phone company and we use far less people than we did 20 years ago. I think with utilities like phone, power, gas, water, etc what if one day we don’t need people to place the lines, pipes, etc. What if we come up with more efficient ways. We are already converting most copper transmission to fiber optics and perhaps one day it won’t even be that. I do wish there were no overhead or buried cables everywhere. I thought the same thing about the knocker-ups. Both the pregnancy joke and then the window repair. As far as the ice - I worked a little in an ice house at Six Flags. They use to make their own ice and deliver it to the food and drink stands. We literally would have to shovel ice. Looking back on it, it wasn’t very sanitary. I’m glad they don’t that anymore

@krashd

5 жыл бұрын

In China they have giant machines like robotic-trucks that lay chunks of road and railtrack in 20 metre long pre-made segments, it's allowed them to construct tens of thousands of miles of new infrastructure in just a decade.

@CrazyAssDrumma

5 жыл бұрын

Mobile networks are gaining more and more bandwidth every few years, meaning that maybe one day we won't need cables to transport information. Also, there are methods of wirelessly transmitting power, but I don't know much about that or how that can advance. I imagine though that in 100 years we may not use any cables at all. Unless it turns out that fibre optics are still more efficient across continents etc

@SamHasACat

5 жыл бұрын

@CrazyAssDrumma I’m pretty sure the wireless power thing has something to do with electro magnetic waves?

@joescott

5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering how safe the ice from the rivers and likes was to consume. Probably mostly used to cool iceboxes, not for consumption though.

@SickoYoda

5 жыл бұрын

@@joescott rivers and likes? lol

Hey Joe, can you do other episode like this please.

@joescott

5 жыл бұрын

On jobs that have gone away?

@tomb504dog

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe extremely dangerous jobs that have gone away.

@xzonia1

5 жыл бұрын

@@joescott Conversely, you could do a video on jobs that people don't realize still exist (like cowboys ... I'm always surprised people think cowboys don't still exist). Lol :)

@starshippower88

5 жыл бұрын

@@joescott Yes for some weird reason this was the most interesting episode since I started watching you ( don't ask how long because I can't remember )

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@joescott and/or jobs predicted to go away! There must be hundreds!

love this video. Love learning random stuff!!! Gracias!!

When I was a kid i always wanted to work at blockbuster, but by the time I turned 15 there were only a few video stores anywhere nearby, and the closest two were both owned by literal mom and pops who said they unfortunately couldn't hire anyone because they weren't going to be around much longer, by the time I got my first job a few months later at a candle factory they were both closed.

The caboose train guy is gone now...... I miss the caboose guy waving from the train. He was replaced by a computer

@Mostlyharmless1985

5 жыл бұрын

Brakeman. But, on trains where security is required, a caboose is still used.

@mattyboy3576

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I only know of cabooses from one that sits outside the train station where I live but they used to be on every freight train even after my parents were born

@whatwhat8524

5 жыл бұрын

When I was little about 5 or 6 yrs old, my cousin and I would always hang out and play on the RR tracts and wait for the train , just to wave to the caboose guy. Yes, 55 years ago parents let their kids play on RR tracts!

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@whatwhat8524 Yes, much safer than parents today who let their kids "play with" drugs!

@rosellaaalm-ahearn1760

4 жыл бұрын

I remember elevator operators in every department store, which are also disappearing. And department store window displays, especially downtown near Christmas.

Gramma told a story about riding out with her dad to watch men cut ice from a lake and load them on horse-drawn sleighs. Around the time I heard this, I also had just found out she was a feisty redhead, so I picture it as a scene from Anne of Green Gables.

@tw3638

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of frozen, b/c they did that in that beginning

@screes620

5 жыл бұрын

So your grandma was Anna from Frozen?

I also took bowling for gym in the late 60's. It was in New Hampshire so we had our choice of ten pins or Candle Pins. The pinsetting was automated (although you had to step on something to clear the candle pins) but the scoring was manual. I still think bowling is the greatest sport. I mean name another sport where you can wash down nachos with beer while waiting for your turn.

Ar Baruch College in the 70's, we had old fashioned elevators manually operated, and one elevator operator named Tony called himself "the Dean of Transportation."

I was a switchboard operator in 1973.

@CAMacKenzie

4 жыл бұрын

@Jim McCracken I turned 23 in Aug of that year.

@fabianweber6937

4 жыл бұрын

My father was still a kid in '73

@MagnificoGiganticus

4 жыл бұрын

I was hatched in '73.

@toot5005

3 жыл бұрын

i misread that as 1793

@viveka2994

3 жыл бұрын

my grandfather was a yugoslavian soldier in 1973, father was also 14

This is the first video of Joe's where i already knew over 80% of the content

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I had an uncle who broke his foot in an ice house!!

@user-jc8yw8nl3y

4 жыл бұрын

Who’s joe?

My Dad grew up in (bfe) Nevada (born in 1934) and they stored their perishables in a "Spring House" that had a cold spring bubbling up through the ground. My Mom (born in 1940) remembers chasing the ice wagon to eat chunks of ice off the Giant Block that was hauled on the back of the truck. There was also a milk truck that delivered All your dairy. They would take your clean wash bottles (from cream and milk) off the front porch and take them to refill them. Amazing perspectives Joe. I hadn't thought about that!

Back in the early 80's my mom worked at a resort that still had one of those old elevators. Everyone that worked the front desk had to learn how to operate it. I remember my mom taking my brother and me with her to pick up her paycheck and she took us up in the elevator to see how it worked.

I still arrange my long-distance road trips by the light of the full moon during wintertime. I live in Canada and our winter nights can be quite long, and driving on dark remote roads can be dangerous at night, especially with low visibility. When the full moon is out and the light reflects on the white snow, it gets really bright!

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, watch out for the moose, eh?

@WitchidWitchid

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome. I'd love to live there.

I remember when everyone owned ice picks. Ya, I’m old

@Handyman-fw8ul

4 жыл бұрын

Margaret, Theophilus OK BOOMER

@Drad_

4 жыл бұрын

Woah, that's actually pretty cool. Didn't know that one!

@devilsreject78

4 жыл бұрын

Now the only people that own an ice pic is a mass murderer

@scottfirman

4 жыл бұрын

Pocket knifes in school. Every boy in Jr High got one at 13. It was a rite of passage.

@marccolten9801

4 жыл бұрын

I have two of them. I have a counter top ice maker and the ice I put into the freezer has to be broken up to use.

1:24 This picture is precious

Such a great topic 👍👍 love your videos Joe, keep em coming!

I grew up in northern New England, and talked to a lot of people over the years about the ice harvest and 1) if you go around to country diners and inns the walls are often decorated with the saws and picks used for ice and you can still occasionally find a guy old enough ho participated 2) it was such a big deal that according to multiple folks the ships would leave the maine coast with ice and come back via Jamaica full with stuff as random as diamond ore and conch shells. The conch were button ore, and there are still a few factories standing that did nothing but drill buttons out of seashells. Seashell button driller, job #7. You should do one on ice though, and maybe get hold of a real icebox. They're usually beautiful and way more effective than you'd think if used them right.

I was recently in Myanmar and actually saw ice cutters going around to self built communities to sell them blocks of ice! It was neat to see a part of life that seems so foreign in the US

That brought back memories. I used to be a pinboy when I was in Junior High. Hard work - you had to be fast and agile - sometimes a pin would come whizzing past your head. One advantage that we had over pin setting machines is that multiple types of pins could be bowled in the alley. I was in New England, and my local alley had candle pins, ten pins, duck pins and Baltimore ducks (also called "rubber ducks"). I really don't miss that work.

I'm 36 now but when I was a teen, I worked as a 'Sticker', putting the pins back up for 'Skittles' games in the pub, the precursor to bowling. Was very similar to what you showed the kids doing there, we would have to roll the balls back down a side gulley, reset the pins and hide as best you could in the booth, because the ball and the pins are pretty heavy and fly pretty hard. Some pubs still have Skittles alleys too, so it still exists as a job.

Taxi and Uber/Lyft drivers are on their way out. Truck drivers too

Very entertaining! Utility meter readers/pretty much gone. It seems that anything analog is being replaced by digital. Examples: volt/ohm meters, air pressure gauges, calipers. All gauges need a calibration periodically. Most people don't realize this, and assume that when a number is displayed, THAT's IT! There was a saying I heard in college: it's better to be approximately correct then precisely wrong. Somethings just stick with with me. Have a good new year!

@joescott

5 жыл бұрын

Good point!

@bennokrickl8135

5 жыл бұрын

Analogue gauges are and will be important safety devices. CE norms state that every halfconducter must be assumed to fail in some point and safe operation is to be preserved electromechanically. As long as safety is a thing, analogue gauges, mechanical switches and similar stuff will always be a thing. And calibration is also a thing we rely on in every case.

@OneTrueScotsman

5 жыл бұрын

We still have meter readers in the UK, for electricity. It's rather annoying because they call unannounced and I'm usually busy, or the house might be untidy, or I'm on my way out, etc. Although I think it won't be for much longer. Everything is being, and can be digitized now. It's just a matter of these companies pulling their act together.

@bennokrickl8135

5 жыл бұрын

@@OneTrueScotsman Even though the building I live in was built in 2017, these guys have to show up to read the electricity meter, but they only have to show up every 5 years, the other years they send a letter and let me fill in the reading.

My mom was a telephone operator who did night shifts in 1981 for department of telecommunications india (now BSNL India’s government operated but private sector telecommunications company). She moved to a desk job role in early 90s. I played with her headsets as a kid and pretended to be her.

I love to learn new things,, I learned something new, Thanks Joe.

I guess many industries won't exist for much time anymore, because of 3d printers. Like... Why would you buy a mug if you could print one the way you like it, maybe with some design that isn't even sold today?

@NUTTY-nw4ed

5 жыл бұрын

Could you 3d print ceramic? I wouldn't want a plastic mug

@dr.zoidberg8666

5 жыл бұрын

I think you're right... personal 3D printers probably will upset a lot of global industries one day, but I think it might take longer than we all thought. I'm a huge tech nerd, & even I don't really want a 3D printer as they exist now... I'm not looking to print up plastic trinkets. Much more useful would be a general purpose printer -- something that could print in a wide variety of materials, equally suited to printing up a T-shirt or a pizza as it is to printing up a mug or a plate. Imagine a 3d printer that could print up electrical things like a working desk lamp, for instance. Something like that would be a true revolution in home 3D printing. As it currently stands, though, 3D printing is already making *huge* waves in industrial manufacturing, bringing down costs & making available more efficient designs left, right & center. So that's cool.

@MrTomtomtest

5 жыл бұрын

Given that 3D printers for now work with plastic I certainly wouldn't use that for a mug, we get enough microplastics in our systems already. Having 3D printed ceramics is a whole new level of difficulty so mug creators probably still have some good years left. And if you want a custom one, you can already order one with your own creatives even if you won't be able to change the mug model itself.

@MCsCreations

5 жыл бұрын

@@NUTTY-nw4ed Not yet. Just plastic. For now.

@MCsCreations

5 жыл бұрын

Guys, I didn't mean today. I meant soon. 3d printing still need to get a lot better. 😊

Yeeeahh Boiii!!!... Joe Scott drops another awesome video and makes my fugging day for the win..

@joescott

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I do.

I know where a bowling alley is in Ontario that still requires a pin setter. Each team has one

Unfortunately I think my job, Accountancy, will soon be automated and gone. Oh well.

@bonniehoke-scedrov4906

4 жыл бұрын

Colm Coakley you didn’t want to do that job anyway, right? Grow vegetables and relax!

@jakeblanton6853

4 жыл бұрын

As long as their are repressive income based taxes, there will be a market for "creative" accountants... :) Hopefully, we will switch to a strictly consumption based tax system and all the people at the IRS will need to go find *honest* jobs.

@DreadDeimos

3 жыл бұрын

As a software developer in fintech and blockchain, I'm sorry, I'm trying not to work too fast.

In Ramadan (a month in lunar hijri calendar aka islamic calendar) muslims fast. When someone fasts he or she shouldn’t eat or drink from dawn to dusk. Back in old days there were some people who woke up others before dawn to prepare for fasting. In some villages in Iran they still do this as a tradition. Thank you Joe for another great video.

@yy-hj4br

5 жыл бұрын

In Turkey it's still a thing and they get paid by the neighborhood in Eid.

@lecadou

5 жыл бұрын

I remember this when I was leaving with my grandma. They were listening to the rosters as well.

@grannykiminalaska

5 жыл бұрын

That's cool. So maybe you've heard this question before. I've never heard an answer. In placed like Alaska (where I live) do you follow the dawn to dusk routine or do you use a clock set to another countries time zone? If so, where?

@Mosern1977

5 жыл бұрын

@@grannykiminalaska - I'm no expert, but I think they have to start and end at a specific time of day in places with no daylight.

@grannykiminalaska

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mosern1977 very interesting

When he made that joke about the wall phones I remembered how in my house cassettes worked to record messages, to play music, to play videogames on my pc and act as ram as well. Cassettes are way more awesome and multifunctional than we give them credit for eh?

I was watching movies from the 40’s and I was so confused by the purpose of switch board operators. What a time...

"You've got to stop selling these for a dollar a bag, WE LOST THREE MORE MEN ON THIS EXPEDITION!" "If you can find a better way to find ice I'd like to hear it!" *grumble grumble*

Great video !

Norway was one of the biggest transporter in the world, The city Kragerø has a museum for that

"Knocker-ups" in a way still exist in the military. In a company or on board a ship there's a wake-up sheet where you write down your name, location, time you want to be woken up and why (for example going on watch). The on duty serviceman will come by and wake you at the prescribed time making sure you sit up and sign his log sheet to show he woke you up. Watches and phones are fine but they can occasionally fail. If you signed the log and fall back asleep you're in trouble. An unsigned log sheet and it's the other guys problem.

0:34 *"A knocker up is not somebody that you pay to get someone pregnant ..."* But that begs the question: is there _actually_ a job where you pay someone to get someone pregnant? And if so what's it called?

@tyravlogs9423

5 жыл бұрын

A surrogate doctor? Lol

@prashank

5 жыл бұрын

A wife Just a joke don’t kill me

@KAl-vf1dz

5 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I read an article that on some island there's a job to de-virginise new wives, so that the husband doesn't have to deal with it himself. I don't remember exact details at this point, but it stuck in my mind as something shocking. 😁

@Nachos237

5 жыл бұрын

It exists called a natural insemination donor.

@twn5858

5 жыл бұрын

A stud.

When I was little I wanted to be a switchboard operator. I was so sad when it stopped being a thing

Damn. I am old enough to remember all those telephones. Even when they were made of wood.. As we lived in a backward rural area.

@bonniehoke-scedrov4906

4 жыл бұрын

rationalguy Cool!

My town still has a few old positions, like Weigher of Coal and Fence Viewer. The Fence Viewer resolved the issues people had with their property boundaries, which were often marked by fences, as we had a lot of farmland. Weigher of Coal just.. weighed coal. The people in those positions don't really get assigned any tasks, but we still pick somebody to fill them.

Oh, yeah. I remember. Dial phones, operaters, and party lines