All this so that in the distant future, your great-grandchildren can receive spam robo calls telling them that their car's warranty is about to expire.

@nakyer

4 жыл бұрын

@Thx1138sober Or that they're going to be arrested because their social security number has been associated with criminal activity, which of course they can avoid if they just pay money by way of buying Google gift cards.

@smittykins

4 жыл бұрын

Or they can refinance their credit card, or their student loan.

@evelynshore9489

3 жыл бұрын

I get those all the time and I don’t drive.

@johnslade3967

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when the government forces your company to divest itself and force it to allow unauthorized devices to connect to the network

@Kristinapedia

3 жыл бұрын

Or that my computer protection company went out of business and i'm getting a refund.

I can’t believe I sat through a fake town meeting for a town that doesn’t exist and that I loved every minute of it.

@mikeha

Жыл бұрын

the presentation reminded me of the Apple presentations that Steve Jobs would give, showing us all how to use the new phone

@StanleyKubick1

Жыл бұрын

you just like all-white crowds. it makes you nostalgic for when america was great, right?

@MartinBogomolni

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeha you can BET Steve Jobs watched those old presentations :)

@ClifHaley

Жыл бұрын

This video put real town meetings to shame.

@BAM-jc7uy

Жыл бұрын

ur funny lol....totally agree. albuq.

I love how at that time they needed a 20 minutes film to explain people just how to dial a number on a rotary phone, but nowadays when you get an iPhone they don’t even ship it with a manual.

@rael5469

6 ай бұрын

Not only that but telephone operators were very polite and helpful. True customer service. You could call them for many things. The time, the weather, etc. I remember my mom calling our neighbor's son in Europe in the Army during the 1970s and having an operator put the call through. In fact my mom was a telephone operator briefly.

@zoolkhan

5 ай бұрын

thats the only use your grandkids have - explain new tech to you :) dont rob em of their purpouse.

@MichaelLasotaTW

5 ай бұрын

The manual comes installed! ;)

@bthamus8334

16 күн бұрын

​@@rael5469 Why operators were woman. They tried males and boys first early on with telephones... But men get nasty and cross... So the phone company hired females!

I’m glad films like this have been archived and are still available to watch

@renatovonschumacher3511

6 ай бұрын

Yes, thank God, these films are still availabel. Otherwise we would not know how to make phone calls these days.

@tsuwaque

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, too bad most of them have been "archived" improperly and in awful quality

@digitalnomad9985

6 ай бұрын

@@davesmith3023 A film can be archived and NOT available to watch.

When I was a kid, i simply remembered all my friends' phone numbers. Now I can barely remember my own.

@benjaminperez2326

3 жыл бұрын

So true . I remember all my childhood phone numbers including the ones where the prefix was the first two letters of a name.

@kevinroylancephotography9437

3 жыл бұрын

prefix 349: 2053 home, 2073 aunt, 8861 aunt, 2482 aunt, 2606 grandma, 2514 aunt, 2933 grandma. Only ones I remember from the 80s

@katherinekinnaird4408

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@cdgross

3 жыл бұрын

These days there are so many more to remember because everyone has a cell phone and they numbers are longer because you have to include the area code.

@stevenporter6903

3 жыл бұрын

In high school my alias was Gern Blanstien.

It's hard to believe this was only nine years ago. We've come such a long way since then.

@vilmfilm

Жыл бұрын

Are you 5 or a bot dummy

@susank1646

Жыл бұрын

😂

@Im__A__Fan

Жыл бұрын

I found this comment funnier than I should've

@RockMcTitsfield

Жыл бұрын

Nine years ago? ... What year is it where you live? Are you John Titor? 😆

@douglasthompson8927

Жыл бұрын

@@RockMcTitsfield so many moving parts

My father worked for Bell System. I have his original splicing oak stool, tool sets, and anniversary gifts from the company all marked Bell System. Amazing stuff....

@juanelorriaga2840

6 ай бұрын

Wow my dad worked for AT&T here in NYC from 1960s till about 2009 and I remember the choices he got for his anniversary gifts Thry offered him it was a catalog.He showed it to all of us and wanted something we all could use we wound up getting this really nice big clock which I still have and works had to take it to be looked at only once.You gotta love those people who grew up during the Great Depression and WW2 they really saw the bad but made them like they say that best generation.

@michaelfields7794

6 ай бұрын

I started as a Long Distance Operator (Traffic Dept) with a supervisor just like that lady! Married the mother of our children from there! Installed residential and business phones. Spliced the cables on poles and in the ground. Did it all, up to 47 years later when I was provisioning internet equipment for the masses. Even turning up equipment in cellular offices for 5 G when I left. All with a high school diploma! They never skimped on the training!

@lovly2cu725

5 ай бұрын

I SAW A STOOL IN AN ANTIQUE STORE. SHOULDA BOUGHT IT

In 1975 I lived in a very rural region of the US. My phone was two rings on a three person party line. Placing a call within town required four digits, direct. To call outside, you needed the operator, a live person. To make a cross country call, you’d first call the local operator to connect you to the state “Bell” system, who, in turn, would place the call for you.

@maryvalentine9090

6 ай бұрын

I lived in the mountains of southern Oregon in 1975 and we had a party line then also. We never had to talk to an operator unless you had a question, but you definitely had to take turns using the phone.

@Moonbatcrazy

6 ай бұрын

Right ! I forgot about the three person phone line system. As a kid - mom would just so mad as the 3 person would spend all day just sitting on the open line. And she would bang the phone hard just to get back to my mom for belly g her to hand up and stop eavesdropping, or should would report her. ( well she did and got a new 3 way line. ) one week later. Put a different person on a third-party line start doing the same thing as the first woman. Shared three-way phone nine ! That would be really funny if used today !

@billneo

6 ай бұрын

And you'd have to check your bank balance 1st to make sure you had enough to pay for a cross country call!😅 they weren’t cheap.

@Moonbatcrazy

6 ай бұрын

@@billneo how about the “ BELL Company” Break up from their monopoly forced by the government. They were every where and almost ever state as the only phone company.

@mrliberty8468

6 ай бұрын

The old lady across the street was always listing in you could hear her breathing on the other end.

I’m at the age that I understand how gramps feels.

@Anastas1786

4 жыл бұрын

"Oh, _sha!_ Soon as a man gets used to _one_ thing, by golly, somebody wants to _take it away_ from 'im!"

@woodwaker1

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a great man. A farmer born in 1886, knew Civil war veterans, WW1, WW2, and Korea vets. Saw the first airplanes and the moon landing, but not on TV - he had no time for it. I was fortunate enough to spend 3 summers with him, helping him farm. I learned a lot from an OLD man. How times have changed!!

@danieldaniels7571

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. It’s not the introduction of new stuff that bothers me as much as the taking away of old stuff that I’m still comfortable with. Backwards compatibility used to be important, but it seems not anymore.

@michaelfisher1537

4 жыл бұрын

go gramps !

@indridcold8433

4 жыл бұрын

I love technology. But when it comes to the modern self drive cars, I feel like grandpa. I will never surrender control of my automobile.

I’m definitely getting one of these when they come out.

@daphne4983

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@nelsonricardo3729

3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to wait for the technology to mature.

@martinsaunders7925

3 жыл бұрын

This will be retro 6G

@kbobdonahue1966

3 жыл бұрын

You can pick one up around 1941. 😆

@martinsaunders7925

3 жыл бұрын

@@kbobdonahue1966 When you had to take gloves off outside to use them the finger could stick in the hole. The bad old days. As for the operators,I had a girlfriend who would dress and make up like the images of B17 and B29's art. Strangely,nostalgically erotic

When Gramps finally got enough nerve up to engage that new telephone , and successfully call his friend , well , I couldn’t help but wipe away a few tears from my eyes . Simply beautiful.

@peterbelanger4094

Жыл бұрын

My sister and I, STILL can't get our 83 year old dad to use a smart phone.

@Captain_MonsterFart

Жыл бұрын

@@peterbelanger4094 Leave him the hell alone. It's not important. I really hate the pressure to conform to new technology "just cuz".

@roberthuot7887

Жыл бұрын

@@Captain_MonsterFart be polite will ya!

@robroy6374

7 ай бұрын

@Captain_MonsterFart Exactly.

@juanelorriaga2840

6 ай бұрын

@peterbelanger4094 I hear ya same with my pops and he worked for AT&T!!! And it was other stuff too like using apps he couldn’t understand the concept “so how many channels?” “No no it’s not like channels just choose what you want” it’s like he needed a clicker in his hand and needed to channel surf.Times change but he always said “f**k that times do t change!!!”

You have to appreciate the level of thoughtfulness that the writers put into this script. This formalized style is the best. It treats everyone like they're smart and not the type of dumbing down that we see today.

@CEOkiller

9 ай бұрын

Most people today are idiots…

@doublebanana-de3dt

5 ай бұрын

I agree with you! It was well done, clear, and did this job well!

Gotta say, this public service announcement was more entertaining than most of the reality shows on TV nowadays!

@pepperdog3761

3 жыл бұрын

VERY TRUE!!!!

@jamesmcinnis208

3 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty low bar. Watching paint dry is more entertaining.

@glbaker5987

3 жыл бұрын

Those people who were getting ready to pull the switch on the old phone service looks like they were going out of space with the goggles and gloves

@mattkennedy6115

3 жыл бұрын

I like how everyone in town got all dressed up and assembled at the local civic center just to see the telephone people. It’s very quaint 😆

@apooyosucks

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmcinnis208 ok zoomer

Miss White nailed her presentation, considering she had to memorise a solid 8 minutes without skipping a beat. Even more amazing it's immortalised on KZread 81 years later!

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

That film was edited. I'm sure she did not do it in one take.

@geckofeet

3 жыл бұрын

And non-rhotic, too!

@davidsault9698

3 жыл бұрын

Notice the movies-of-the-time casual leaning pose used by Miss White that was considered so cool.

@pedrolopes3542

2 жыл бұрын

she didn't "memorized" anything, she just knew how the system worked and proceeded to explain it. When I do a presentation over a subject that I know a lot about I also do not "memorize" anything, I just explain the concept, plan or idea I am presenting.

@scottwallach3183

2 жыл бұрын

That’s some good change management

Loved this! In 1972 when I was 9 we moved into a new home. The Southern Bell guy pulled up in his van and opened up the side door. Displayed inside were the phones, desktop or wall units in all available colors (white, black, yellow, red, pink, avocado, and sky blue). Being the nerdy kid I asked when the new push button phones were coming out. They’ll be out shortly, he said. I asked, what about the new extra buttons (# and *) what are they for. New features, he said. So dad ordered 3 sky blue phones, the one going in the kitchen matched the color of our GE appliances. About a year later a new kid moved into the neighborhood. We went over to his house and, gasp, he had the new push button phones. Dad, can we get the new push button phones. Nope, these work just fine he said. I still have one of the desktop units displayed on a shelf. The Rotary remained in my parents home up until at least the late 80’s.

So glad they improved the open line signal from the way it was in 1940 to my 70s childhood. The sound here is like a mechanical saw grinding its way through a lead pipe, good grief. Bell was almost a governmental agency, really. Probably should've been one. Those old rotary phones were operational until the early 80s.

@MaxXFalcon

20 күн бұрын

Until the 80s? We used it in the early 2000s in Russia 😮

Funny..."dialing a number" is as foreign a process to kids today as it is to the grandpa in this film.

@markfloors6988

3 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!

@georgeelmerdenbrough6906

3 жыл бұрын

They can't memorize numbers , either . Lol

@MVEProducties

3 жыл бұрын

A telephone operator, dial phone, push phone, even the concept of a standalone land telephone is foreign to kids. All they know is a mobile where you can, among texting, WhatsApping, YouTubing, tiktokking, twittering, photo making etc, also call people. How old fashioned!

@pastelskies8466

3 жыл бұрын

To think the original phone system was wireless to begin with. We're back to wireless yet high tech. lol

@dariusanderton3760

3 жыл бұрын

@@pastelskies8466 what on earth are you talking about ? Telephones started in the 1870s and 1880s and definitely used wires. The earliest radio (wireless) communications were sometimes called wireless telephony or wireless telegraph, but that was circa 1910.

When I was a kid in the early 1960's, you could dial your own phone number, hang up and few seconds later, it would ring. It really pissed of my sister, whenever we did that, because she'd run like the devil, to pick it up, thinking it was one of her friends calling.

@flyingphobiahelp

3 жыл бұрын

I did that to my son and wife up to about 10 years ago.

@earlgriffith3592

3 жыл бұрын

That was a “feature”

@bayernfan1960

3 жыл бұрын

so who answered?

@russs7574

3 жыл бұрын

We had an upstairs extension phone. If you dialed 1-1-9-1 on one of the phones, it would make the other ring....this worked clear into the 70's. And yeah, it would get my younger sister all ticked off when I'd do it to her. And what about phone exchanges? Instead of a 7-digit phone number, it was two letters (the first two of your exchange) and then 5 digits. One of the popular radio commercials was for a home improvement company and it went "People you know call Maybro, HAzel 1-9988." And when you were calling within your exchange, you only had to dial those last 5 numbers. (edit) I just remembered. One of the classic radio commercials in Pittsburgh during the mid-60's was for another home improvement company...."No money you'll be riskin' when you call Joe Ziskind, so dial this number and do it quick. HAzel-1-7866." And also, before there was 1-800-(whatever), there were toll-free calls that featured the ZEnith exchange.

@donaldjensen

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me, I totally forgot that feature!

I remember we had a "party-line"...That was a shared line due to the limited capacity of the phone system back then. We had to wait until our next door neighbor would get off her phone before we could use ours...We often thought she was listening in on our calls...Sometimes we'd even catch her because we could hear her breathing!.

I so enjoyed listening to the lady explain how to make a call. She was so pleasant, courteous and precise and her smile was so friendly and she seemed so kind and helpful. I could work around someone like this all my life and enjoy them everyday!

@JemicoTX

6 ай бұрын

Very attractive lady she was.

@greggoog7559

6 ай бұрын

Yep, that lady is a perfect unison of precision and beauty. She's probably dead though 🥴

@Brian-yt8fu

6 ай бұрын

Strict dress codes for ladies back then. The old Bell System was a strict place to work. I was sent to company schools and learned how to do things the Bell System way.

@saitamabeach2200

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, she didn't take heed! She did not know her limits!

@kents.2866

6 ай бұрын

She is absolutely stunning 😁

Watching this video on my phone. Strange juxtaposition of technologies.

@raudiaz6245

3 жыл бұрын

what do you mean?

@mohammadabdulfarooqi3068

3 жыл бұрын

watch on your LAPTOP then it won't be so awkward

@Melissa0774

3 жыл бұрын

@Paul Morley A phone is any device that you can use to talk to people in real time, where you hear their voice on the other end. How it works and what else it can do, doesn't matter. Hell, you could even say my desk top computer is a phone too, because I can use it to make video or voice calls with Google Voice or apps like Zoom. It technically wouldn't be wrong.

@IrishAnnie

3 жыл бұрын

Ironic.

@user-ru6mq5sc5n

3 жыл бұрын

Are you watching it on a rotary phone.

2021: 5G Network 1979: 1G Network 1940: “Oh gee! Network!”

@TheOzthewiz

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was the BELL SYSTEM and it was a network, ANALOG, just like it is NOW!

@markdemell8056

2 жыл бұрын

5G is frying brains.

@onee

2 жыл бұрын

@@markdemell8056 Sure it is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@tomcarpenter700

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was G Wiz,,,,, Or G willikers,,, Or golly G,,,

@tomcarpenter700

2 жыл бұрын

G wiz Wally,,,,,That phone is swell,,,

Glad to see Grandad is letting the family live with him.

@v.r.2834

Жыл бұрын

👍🏼👏🏼

Nowadays, we take for granted monthly updates on our cellular phones. During the time of this film, the convenience of the dial added to the phone must have been a big amazement in that time period. Interestingly, you see the grandfather worrying about the complication of the rotary dial until he tries it for the first time, and the granddaughter, excited for such new technology, peeking at her grandfather to check out his reaction! Beautiful piece of film, worth the whole 20 minutes of it!

Who wold have thought that 80 some years later there would be more people watching this now, than it was put out originally?

@sweetpeach3293

2 жыл бұрын

Plus many of us are watching this from our phones

@nicoleknight9412

Жыл бұрын

@@sweetpeach3293 Talk about irony.

@marmar92828

Жыл бұрын

@@nicoleknight9412 yes, but when we can watch this on an iron, then we can really talk about irony. 🤣

I'm now 73 years old. When I was 3 years old I picked up the phone and told the operator that I wanted to talk to my Grandma. She connected me. We lived in a small town. If my Grandmother were still alive I could now do that with my iPhone.

@ek7675

3 жыл бұрын

That’s true!

@bobgillis1137

3 жыл бұрын

Its a long distance call to Granny now.

@TheOzthewiz

3 жыл бұрын

I would still rather talk to a LIVE operator than some automated crap directory!!

@jdinhuntsvilleal4514

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobgillis1137 BUT back THEN it would have cost extra, by the minute. Today there's really no such thing as "long distance", except for out-of-country.

@bobgillis1137

3 жыл бұрын

@@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 uhh. I referred to calling Granny up in the sky.

The grandfather in this film reminded me of my mom when got herself a smart phone. When she learned how to text and send pictures by email, I was very proud of her as the grandfather got acclimated to the new dial phone.

My great grandmother got her first dial tone in 1962, they put her on the front page of the newspaper. She was 94 at the time.

@soneil7745

2 ай бұрын

I'd love to see that newspage. What paper was it, and what was the date?

70 years after this video, I taught my grandmother how to use the internet for the first time. She was just as nervous, but then just as impressed as Grandfather was about the new rotary dial. :-)

@MrManfly

Жыл бұрын

I want a rotary phone 📞 😂 Truth be told I’m old enough to have had one on my home in the early 70’s !! 😜

@Joe_Okey

Жыл бұрын

@@MrManfly So am I.

@blackleague212

Жыл бұрын

@@MrManfly this girl youtuber made a rotary phone on youtube and its actually a cell phone. Its really cool, look her up shes like some young inventor, super tiny channel go check it out

@seeharvester

Жыл бұрын

@@MrManfly We've still got one. The audio is superior to newer phones.

@SavageRabbit666

Жыл бұрын

makes you think what tech 70 years hence will make you nervous then impressed taught to you by your great grandchildren

Just realized how old I am, 74. We had The Telephone Co, Southwester Bell, come to the schools and explain to us how the dial phones worked. I still have the 1947 dial phone from home and it still works great. It was fun teaching my 15 year old Grandson how to use the dial phone. He got really excited and called his Mother. You would have thought it was the first phone call he ever made.

@farnumbp

3 жыл бұрын

Those old dial phones are valuable antiques today

@LMB222

3 жыл бұрын

My son, born 1999, made a point of stopping when he saw a phone booth to check it out. It was surreal to me.

@kyle8952

2 жыл бұрын

@@farnumbp not really. they made millions and millions of them, they're worth maybe ten bucks each.

@nnylasoR

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful tale. 🥰

@gator9339

2 жыл бұрын

@@LMB222 Did Bill & Ted pop out of it?

I was at a friend of my grandparents back in the late 70's that still had party lines. Also, my grandfather lived in a town that you only needed to dial the last 5 digits for someone else that lived in town.

@animaljsmith

6 ай бұрын

I went to high school in a coastal Connecticut village that had local 5-digit dialing and rotary standard into the 1980s

The dial is actually a spring loaded, speed governed timer. If you dial 0 and let go of the dial, the timer will spring back sending 10 equally spaced pulses which will be picked up by the electronic circuit at the central office. If you dial 9, then 9 pulses, etc.

Makes me consider my grandmother, who was born on the family farm with no phone (or indoor plumbing), and 3 lights and one outlet in the whole house. She’s still with us today, in this world of touchscreen pocket computers and every modern convenience one could ask for. I asked her once, a few years ago, what it was like to live through that kind of massive change - from heating your bath water on a coal stove to indoor plumbing being installed to cars being commonplace, from ancient 3-channel radios to television to color television, from the first commercial transatlantic flight to men walking on the moon to launching rockets to space every few days and landing them back on earth…just so many things. And you know what she told me? “It’s amazing, yes…all of it. These are all things I could barely even dream of as a child. But you know what - you will likely see the same types of advancement in your lifetime as well.” I hope she’s right!

@FinleyHills

Жыл бұрын

That's fascinating! My late grandparents said to me once something quite dissimilar: they said "Everything's been invented in our lifetimes; there's nothing left to invent!" I suppose in the face of such overwhelming advancement, they couldn't conceive of how it might possibly continue further!

@RavenLotz

Жыл бұрын

She sounds very smart. She sounds like an interesting person.

@N1xZer0

Жыл бұрын

I'm 40 and that's exactly how I feel about a lot of technologies we have today. Smartphones are a great example- I never imagined we would have super thin screens, pocket-sized computers, or wireless high speed internet, but here I am using all 3.

@kjabber7245

Жыл бұрын

With that much advancement in our lifetime, we'll become the Borg and start assimilating other planets.

@wpbdan1

Жыл бұрын

@@FinleyHills The US government once considered closing the patent office for the same reason......in 1899!! Boy were they wrong!

Remembering when "It's long distance!!!" made people run to the phone (hurry up, so expensive) and Mom saying "You have to hang up, it's going to storm."

@retroguy9494

3 жыл бұрын

I sure do. Both of them. And "don't talk too long its long distance." LOL! And "call after 5 (or 8); the rates will be cheaper. Also "reversing the charges" and "person to person" so you wouldn't have to pay for the call if someone else answered and your party was not there.

@cratecruncher6687

3 жыл бұрын

I have an old chronograph watch with indicators on the dial for the long distance price intervals. If you talked up to 2 minutes it was a flat price but 2.01minutes was the same price as 4.00!

@jettydoom

3 жыл бұрын

I'm old , in my sixties , an older friend of mine while talking on a cell phone will still say stuff like " gotta call you back , I"m on long distance .

@retroguy9494

3 жыл бұрын

@@jettydoom Haven't you heard? 60 is the new 50! Gotta love us Boomers! Your friend is cute. Now my father turns 91 next week and has dementia and can no longer use the telephone. But about 5 or 10 years ago, he would call information (411) to get the number of a business whos name of which he was not sure, but he knew where they were. When the person said they couldn't help he would say "well, you go down the street from your building and turn onto blah blah blah...and would continue. " The lady would inform him that she was in Rhode Island or Wisconsin or some place. My father would get stunned because he thought they were still in the old Bell Telephone building which was located in a town (our county seat) about 20 minutes away! I'd have to tell him "father...the phone company left that building 20 years ago and besides, you have the cable company for phone service now, not Verizon."

@fordtruxdad5155

3 жыл бұрын

And party lines! There was a sweet old lady on our exchange who always answered on our ring. "It's for us, Mrs. Lamm."

"As soon as man get use to one thing, by galley someone wants to get away from it." That REALLY rings true today, with how FAST things change ESPICALLY websites. "No, I just wondered why they wanted to change something that still works alright." This man is speaking my parents lingo! They old like the old man can't you tell. Speaking of dial tones, you can turn it on and off on cell phones. So that's pretty good! Also the new directory is the first yellow pages?

I worked a cord board in Santa Barbara from '81 to '85. I still have a calculagraph I used. That was the time stamp apparatus to keep the times for the calls.

Just spent 20 minutes in 2021, learning how to use a machine I already know how to use. Thanks 40s.

@0623kaboom

3 жыл бұрын

nosatalgic wasnt it lol

@nieldooley2906

3 жыл бұрын

It was an interesting video to watch, although the American dial tone and busy signals were horrible sounds, the kinds that sets one's teeth on edge.

@davidsault9698

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed the same thing. (laughs)@@nieldooley2906

@msjdb723

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@someoneelse7629

3 жыл бұрын

I have bad news for you, you will likely never have to use this knowledge in the future...

A time when grandpa just lives in his son’s house, instead of an old people’s home or nursing home .

@msr1116

3 жыл бұрын

Communal living worked when the generations genuinely liked each other's company and respected boundaries.

@donaldcarletonjr.9047

3 жыл бұрын

Really a much healthier system, socially speaking!

@flamencoprof

3 жыл бұрын

Well as a 70 yo still living in my own house, with a daughter who's divorced, can't afford rent, and wants to share a house, I can relate to this.

@MVEProducties

3 жыл бұрын

@@msr1116 True, so sad it’s gone 😭

@MVEProducties

3 жыл бұрын

@@flamencoprof We need more people like you 👍

My grandma had one of these phones all the way up until about 2009. One reason is because you can't just unplug it and replace it, these phones are built into the wall of the house and hers/most homes only have one. It's still there today just not used anymore.

So trippy. This change in technology was a once in a lifetime national movement with a veritable army of technicians dispatched all over the country. Now they change how my phone operates every couple of months and i have to figure it out on my own 😅

In those days one didn’t own the phone equipment; it was loaned to one as part of the phone service. These devices were build like tanks- virtually indestructible! Slamming a phone receiver down in a rage was wonderfully cathartic. It was a non-violent way to demonstrate one’s displeasure with a company or to end a relationship.

@JL-sm6cg

Жыл бұрын

I love when Lewis Black said the rotary desk phones were so big and heavy that you could use one to kill a charging puma. I recall those days as well. lol

@Dallas_K

Жыл бұрын

They were the most well-made phones of all time.

@edwardphilibin3151

Жыл бұрын

You could use the phone to club an intruder into submission, then call police and an ambulance with that same phone.

@stevepettersen3283

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the phone bill as a kid in the 1970s. The phones were leased, a monthly fee per phone. So when AT&T was broken up around 1984 and you could buy your own phone so many people did. No monthly fee, the phone was paid for before long. You had to drop off the old phones to an AT&T store.

@Lili-xq9sn

Жыл бұрын

@@stevepettersen3283 I leased an old rotary phone into the 1990s. Hawaiian Tel. I think it w $1 per month, or so.

It's amazing how many telephone numbers us old folks used to have memorized when we were youngsters.

@almostfm

Жыл бұрын

I know-now I have to think of my own number. Everybody else I pull up by their name in my contacts, and press the button to callthem.

@russs7574

Жыл бұрын

Really, we memorized every phone number we used frequently. I know very few of my frequently used numbers now.....they're all filed, by name in my "contacts" list, and I just hit the "call" button to dial them.

@meehow72

Жыл бұрын

I used to know all my credit card numbers by heart, too. It took me 6 months to memorise my phone number.

@threeminuteshate

Жыл бұрын

For the longest time I refused to program numbers into my cell phones; my rationale being “If I ever don’t have my phone I want to have the numbers I need to call memorized.” But eventually the number of people became too great and I gave up. Pretty sure I only know my parents’ numbers now.

@BariumCobaltNitrog3n

Жыл бұрын

Now, that memory storage area can be used for better things than strings of 7 or 10 digit numbers. Well, 4 digits actually, the area code (if there was one) was easy and the prefix was a word. Our number 843-xxxx was THornwall 3 then the rest. What did your area have?

God! I wish I could go and live in that age of pure beauty and simplicity!

@ezrc9294

9 ай бұрын

many of us did - and it was GREAT

@awaismushtaq5719

9 ай бұрын

@@ezrc9294 lucky you sir

I love how everything in this presentation, along with the people, are so slow and deliberate - back in the days before television started speeding up our lives and shortening our attention spans.

This video is a nice window into the past. A real piece of history.

@nancyterrywhittemore2015

3 жыл бұрын

So glad I grew up in this era---good old memories!

@ramongonzalez2112

3 жыл бұрын

Just think, WWII broke out a year later.🤔

@calgal8915

3 жыл бұрын

And everyone was so polite.

@anthonythomas6593

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, the cancel culture will call this white privilege, and systemic racism soon.

@williamwilkins3084

3 жыл бұрын

@@ramongonzalez2112 And if WWIII breaks out, we won't even be using one of these things.

"The phone company wants us to dial so they can lay off most of the operators." Actual quote from my grandfather.

@nelsonricardo3729

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn't wrong.

@krashd

3 жыл бұрын

People have been made redundant for as long as humans have had capitalism. Only a fool would pay someone money they didn't have to.

@reecenewton3097

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda like U-Scan-Um at the supermarket.

@jscott1000

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Having an operator place your call is more convenient than dialing it yourself. They push it as progress when it's actually a way to maximize profits.

@nowthatsjustducky

2 жыл бұрын

@@reecenewton3097 You mean those devices that free up employees to take on other equally needed tasks?

I really enjoyed that. I was born in 1959 so I used rotary phones when I was a kid. Simpler times for sure.

@geraldbarreno535

5 ай бұрын

U old

This is exactly what I needed to learn today. Thank you. I remember my grandma showing me these old phones when I was young at some museum and trying to teach me, but I couldn't understand. Now I'm 25 and understand

@Captain_MonsterFart

Жыл бұрын

They still work and are still around!

@BamBabyBrenda

Жыл бұрын

@@Captain_MonsterFart last I saw one I was 4 or 5

It's interesting they felt so compelled to explain how it worked so deeply beyond just "here's how to dial."

@drewpamon

Жыл бұрын

It was a massive change and this right here is the real start of the internet.

@KimKinzer

Жыл бұрын

Before dial, it was all operator interaction. You give the operator the number like MElrose 3333, they would confirm the number MElrose 3333? Then, either you would be connected or told, "Sorry, that number is busy." Until dial, there was no dial tone, ringing tone or busy signal.

@dobrovik

Жыл бұрын

@@ChadnNancy you sure got that right. after two years i cant get my teammates to boot an aws ec2 linux instance. but this video can get a guy born in 1885 to dial a phone

@herrakaarme

Жыл бұрын

It was actually quite smart. Those folks were all used to human-human interaction. Machines doing work for them autonomously wasn't obvious at all for them. Instead of just telling them to turn the meaningless looking wheel, the demonstration showed how the more it was rotated, the more lights, corresponding to numbers, would turn on at the telephone exchange. It instantly told them how the dialed number is really registered, even if all the details obviously weren't explained. They must have also felt that the phone company employees aren't looking down on them. Since the time was spent to show all that, it was assumed they will understand it, like intelligent people. People always like to know why they must do something, not just be told to do something.

@JamesQMurphy

Жыл бұрын

@@dobrovik DevOps much? 😉

this has more character development than disney star wars

@worldtraveler930

3 жыл бұрын

What doesn't??

@xoopcanpoop7480

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldtraveler930 disney star wars

@stevefidler6802

3 жыл бұрын

Just stopped by to shake the hand of this edge Lord 🙏

@doyleperkins4916

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@slugcult-10_years_and

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, as a matter of fact, instead seeing Luke in the Mandalorian, I was really expecting to see this Grandpa underneath that hood.

Most folks are unaware of the detailed infrastructure that supports our daily lives. This short film helps to show what is involved without too many details.

In 1956, my grandparent's house in Rimer, Ohio still had wooden box phones with cranks, 2 shorts and a long ring, party lines, and our 2 maiden aunts ran the switchboard. Operator assisted long distance calls (1+ started in '60) to my grandparents wemt thru my aunt's switchboard, and always started with a 5 minute catch up on everything talk with my aunts until they forwarded the call to grandparents.

1940 - 30 minutes to show people how to spin a dial. 2020- smartphones, thousands of apps, phone settings, viruses, operating systems and no instruction manuals for any of it.

@jettydoom

3 жыл бұрын

You're so right , I"m not stupid but I think I only use about 20 percent of what is in my phone

@JohnJ469

3 жыл бұрын

And most people use then to make phone calls, send text messages and look at pictures of cats and food.

@clarky23

3 жыл бұрын

What people fail to realize is we no longer use telephones. It's called a "Smartphone" but it's really a computer with a program (app) to allow you to communicate with other devices with the same technology. Many "smartphones" are more powerful than the desktop/laptop you are using in the house.

@gregb6469

3 жыл бұрын

I had mine for three years before a friend showed me that it had a flashlight feature. There are no doubt lots of things that it can do that I don't just don't know how to do, but am unaware exist. Why didn't it come with an instruction book?

@jtc1947

3 жыл бұрын

@@jettydoom I doubt if I use 10% !!

I can't wait for the "dial" phones to arrive. I'm getting really fed up with touching these stupid little screens.

@TheOzthewiz

3 жыл бұрын

Just use "voice dialing"! Problem solved!

@rob1248996

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOzthewiz I also don't want to have to have and conversation with the damned phone to tell it what to do. It's aready spying on me. I just want to crank the thing on the wall and tell a human (operator) who I want to talk to.

@samuelfellows6923

3 жыл бұрын

🙃

@jdinhuntsvilleal4514

3 жыл бұрын

You have accidentally brought up a question: Do "dial" telephones even work these days?

@rob1248996

3 жыл бұрын

@@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 The problem is that fewer and fewer homes even have wires to the house. I'm an Electrical Engineer and could design an interface for a dial phone to your cell phone if there was a huge demand. Any inverstors out there?

The timeless quality about this is amazing. And the acting seems better than almost we get now.❤❤😊

@EYE_GOTCHA

5 ай бұрын

I think that it IS better. They spoke correctly and concisely.

Outstanding presentation from that lady! That degree of care & dedication is hard to find today

Miss White looks suspiciously like MissTomlin... "One ringy-dingy ..."

@thebrinx9632

3 жыл бұрын

"A crisp and professional good afternoon to you sir"

@chaunceyfeatherstone2142

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god, only one other person got this joke....SNURT!

@thebrinx9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@chaunceyfeatherstone2142 "Hello is this Felicia? Felicia...Get over to the corner of 5th and Main quick....BOswick-9 is about to pay off!"

@thebrinx9632

3 жыл бұрын

@@chaunceyfeatherstone2142 kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWSgm8h-YrWnmps.html

@chaunceyfeatherstone2142

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebrinx9632 Hah! Vito got lunch for the week!

I never imagined that my knowledge of how to use a dial telephone would one day make me a living relic.

@pauline3735

Жыл бұрын

Lol! 😄

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

Terrible isn’t it? My 20 year old can’t read or write cursive ugh

@tonyg490

Жыл бұрын

I'm 30 and I remember dial phones. Record players too. I assume theres not many people younger than me that can say the same.

It’s crazy to me that as a 26 year old I remember using a dial phone to call my grandmother in the 90’s. The leaps in technology I witnessed in my short life so far are insane sometimes, I can’t imagine what the western world looks like in 20 more years.

@dingdongpaddiwack

Жыл бұрын

You used a dial phone as a toddler?

@zunnoab

Жыл бұрын

@@dingdongpaddiwack Absolutely. It was normal to me growing up in the '80s and '90s. I knew how to use the VCR to record things by 6-7.

@user-ne3yw2cu6c

6 ай бұрын

20 Years from now, people will have chip implants, they will Dial 666 to make a call.

@azmike1

6 ай бұрын

Yes. And now civilization has crumbled to chaos and disappointment.

@lnplum

6 ай бұрын

I was born in the mid 80s and I also remember using a dial phone. I was probably barely out of kindergarten when they were phased out.

They had crossbar technology in their telephone exchanges back in 1940! The British Commonwealth was still using step-by-step tech in theirs until much later, with my country, New Zealand, only getting crossbar in the 1980's! I worked on both types, as well as the microprocessor-based tech that replaced it in the 1990's.

For long distance you had to dial “O” and an operator would connect you. If I remember correctly we had to call after 6PM for a less expensive cost...

@EphemeralProductions

3 жыл бұрын

I remember being able to get an operator by pressing the 0 even in the 90s. Think that you still can get one on landline service with some carriers, for international long distance

@georgekilroy2670

3 жыл бұрын

My sis worked for the phone co as an operator in Anaheim in the ‘60’s-Granma in the ‘20’s😎

@1computernew

3 жыл бұрын

I was a long distance operator for about 18 years. I started with Southern Bell which became South Central Bell. I transferred to Southwestern Bell which later became AT&T. The lower rates began at 5:00 p.m. and they got very low at 11:00 p.m. The cheap rates were in effect from Friday night until Monday morning. I hated the job most of the time, but I look back on those days fondly now. The job wasn't so bad after all.

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

Ha... kinda like peak & off-peak for gas & electricity pricing today. Thanks smart meters.

@donaldcarletonjr.9047

3 жыл бұрын

@@1computernew Everything looks better in the rear view mirror!

In 1970 my company threw out all the dial phones and installed touchtone. I took them home and built a switching system so I could turn my Christmas lights on or off using the dial phone. I took the system to the church bizarre at Christmas time and my booth made more money with people paying 50 cents to try them than any other booth.

@VictoriaKimball

Жыл бұрын

Wow..... 1970! They were trailblazers.

Thank you for posting this. Back then, I never could figure out those silly dials. I went many years without making a phone call after those things came out.

@EYE_GOTCHA

5 ай бұрын

🧐

And the prank call was officially born!

Writing this comment in late 2019, it's interesting to note that the young girl at the beginning of this video would now be in her mid-90's

@theresareineke6753

4 жыл бұрын

WBDE I was thinking the same thing during the video. And that grandpa’s daddy had to have been alive during the civil war.

@brianarbenz7206

4 жыл бұрын

And people today who are his age are texting, Viagra replenished, and dating after their 2nd divorce.

@whatevernamegoeshere3644

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianarbenz7206 Okay boomer

@LectronCircuits

4 жыл бұрын

Most (if not all) of the folks in that movie have already undergone gruesome death. Cheers!

@duckduckgoismuchbetter

4 жыл бұрын

@@whatevernamegoeshere3644 Okay Millennial

And one week later, Gramps was making prank calls.

@mikejankowski6321

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's just the type!

@matthew8153

3 жыл бұрын

A true inspiration.

@21stcenturyfossil7

3 жыл бұрын

"Is your refrigerator running?" "Huh? We still have an icebox!" "Oh, ....OK, I'll call again, next year!"

@pastelskies8466

3 жыл бұрын

It was Gramps that monopolized the phone yet women ended up getting a bad rap for doing just that. lol

@badddkattt

3 жыл бұрын

He kinda did when talking to his friend Ed at about 2:40 telling him that there were airplanes doing skywriting over the town to hoax the eyedroppers on the line who were muffling the signal.

It never occured to me before how giant a change this would have been back then. I also never realized that DIAL tone was an instruction.

I love this. Simpler more wholesome times, sigh. I was born in late 1959, so I grew up with the old school rotary phones. I can remember when we got the push button phones in the late 70s. Then we got answering machines, call waiting, and call forwarding around the same time. We used to remember a bunch of numbers. I can still remember our first two phone numbers from the 60s and 70s. My cell has the old school ring tone that I remember from my childhood.

@waitaminute2015

8 ай бұрын

I also have the original ringtone. What I really miss is the fact that people actually talked on the phone. I don't like that today people feel it's ok to text instead of talking.

@MrStrocube

8 ай бұрын

@@waitaminute2015 As an introvert, I actually prefer texting most of the time.

@waitaminute2015

8 ай бұрын

@@MrStrocube that's understandable.

@maryvalentine9090

6 ай бұрын

I have my cell phone set to an old fashion ring as well and my 30 something daughters absolutely think it’s the most hilarious thing ever! I just turn around and remind them how stupid it is they always have their phones on “silent“ so when they lose their phones they’re in a major panic and I never fail to tell them, “Well IF you left your ring ON so you could actually HEAR it ring, it would be a LOT easier to find! Good luck!“ The little freaks can actually hear that vibration noise the phone makes. The mortal fear that they have of making an embarrassing sound somewhere it’s absolutely comical and so typical of their millennial generation. (They’re good girls though. Really hard workers.)

This makes me feel old. I vividly remember using a rotary phone and I remember getting touch tone. I was amazed at how much quicker touch tone was.

@danielthoman7324

3 жыл бұрын

got the touch tone phone in 67. back then it was a real cool thing to have one.

@billy2182

3 жыл бұрын

You could still get a phone with the 'pulse' feature (simulating dialing) on push button phones clear up until the early 90's. Because touch tone carried an extra $1 a month on your phone bill.

@dariusanderton3760

3 жыл бұрын

I remember my Dad complaining about touch tone phones in the 1970s, since he preferred rotary dials.

@BlackPDigitalMedia

3 жыл бұрын

@@billy2182 🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIGHT!! that dollar was a BIG deal back then

@ouya_expert

3 жыл бұрын

My home had a shitty plastic rotary phone in the early 2000s for some reason. Fun to dial with it but a pain when your calling in batch

Just had one installed last week, and I love it! Took a while to familiarize myself with this modern marvel, but SO much better than the party line, or making Earnestine patch me through long distance over the holidays!

@josefkonderla8947

2 жыл бұрын

You whipper -snappers with your technology

@OneAdam12Adam

Жыл бұрын

One ringy ringy, two ringy ringy...

@stanleycostello718

Жыл бұрын

Mr. Veedle?

@robadams5799

Жыл бұрын

@@OneAdam12Adam I was gonna say that! You must be old like me. (Although I remember it as "ringy-dingy.")

@jimbryce6982

Жыл бұрын

"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"

The first telephone I remember using had no dial. You just gave an operator the number you wanted to call. I remember being really interested in the new switching equipment when the town went over to dial.

Decent folks, better times. People had moral values. Thank you for sharing. God bless 🙏

@user-ne3yw2cu6c

6 ай бұрын

Yes... Lets Make America Great Again!

@ivanostry3359

6 ай бұрын

It’s truly a shame that we elected a fascist in 2016.

It is such a novelty to watch the way something was presented, how they spoke, how slowly they spoke, and what an effort they went through! Thank you for sharing this!

@stevenbrown6277

Жыл бұрын

...and nobody said 'like'. : )

@jakehanifee8856

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenbrown6277 🤣🤣🤣

@kilgoretrout321

Жыл бұрын

Technical Communication is a wonderful thing when done well

@KairuHakubi

Жыл бұрын

I can't even decide which was funnier, the the old codger who was born as the civil war ended, or the teenager calling a new kind of phone 'yummy' Jeepers, she might still be alive today.

@wendyarbes9514

Жыл бұрын

This was a short subject between movies at the theaters

4 weeks later the first "Is your refrigerator running......."

@mitchyoung8791

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have Prince Albert in the can?

@pghcoyote

3 жыл бұрын

"Is this the Wall residence? No? There's no Walls? Then tell me, what is holding up your roof?"

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

"Uh, my icebox doesn't run anyway. Thanks."

@trainman4763

3 жыл бұрын

Call the local grocery, do you have pigs feet??

@lisalu910

3 жыл бұрын

Crank phone calls before Caller ID or *66. Those were the days!

To really get a grip on how old this is, this was made back in 1940. Both of my parents were born in 1941 and both passed away when they were around 80. 😮

Recently retired from the phone company and it amazed me that much of the same terminology is still used today; central office, cutovers, plant department. Cable is still installed the same way, strand is placed the the cable is lashed to it, although it’s pretty much all fiber these days.

Wow I can't wait for these dial phones to come out! Right now if I drop my phone the wrong way, I can't even dial because the glass breaks. These dial phones look sturdy and reliable! Plus with the new dial tone feature I know BEFORE I dial my number whether or not my call will be put through. No more of dialing THEN finding out "no signal"! Also to dial someone you only need four numbers? Right now I need to dial ten! How efficient of a change! My favorite part is that these new dial phones are wired to the wall so I don't lose it. How innovative!

@bemore1134

Жыл бұрын

Looks good, but I'll wait for the new "Dialphone 14" to come out. Should be any day now......

@ryandean3162

Жыл бұрын

Sturdy is an understatement. You could beat someone to death with a bakelite phone and then dial 911 with it. The 4 numbers is because it's very local only (and party line too given what she said about other people on the line), to get outside of your immediate area you'd have to call the operator.

@stevesether

Жыл бұрын

I feel exactly the same way. In many ways we've gone backwards with phone service. Now, if you want to reach someone: 1. They have to have their phone charged 2. They have to have their phone near enough to hear the ring 3. They have to be in range of the tower (maybe not so in a basement/large building) 4. They have to have the ringer on 5, The phone, designed to last 2-3 years, has to work Progress doesn't always go in the right direction.

@julieking4304

Жыл бұрын

inherited granma's phone

@PronatorTendon

Жыл бұрын

@@ryandean3162 haha 911 that's cute

Less than eighty years later one can have a video call to almost anywhere on the planet with a small “piece of glass” in one’s hand- its incredible!

@jeffg1524

Жыл бұрын

I was going to write the same thing but you said it better. Realize that in less than 100 years we went from a dial phone to wireless cells that play videos, games, music and have internet (itself a modern marvel) access in a package smaller than a telephone handset of old. Technology has given us more benefits in the past 100-150 years than the preceding thousands of years. We truly do live in a mind-boggling time.

@hellskitchen10036

Жыл бұрын

but not better!

@clieding

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffg1524 My Grandfather was born in 1908. He didn’t see his first electric lightbulb until he was twenty-years-old. He said he: “…just had to figure out how it worked….”. He unscrewed the lightbulb and stuck his thumb in the socket. He said he: “… found out quickly how it worked!”. He grew up on a ranch in Montana. They heated the small wooden house with a cast iron wood burning stove. They used the same stove to do all their cooking. There was no electricity. They used oil burning lanterns for lighting. They had no telephone, no refrigeration, no appliances of any kind, no radio, no television, no record player. They had no running water and therefore no sink, no bathtub and no toilet (no toilet paper). Their water was drawn from a well that was no more than a hole in the ground with a bucket and a rope. Sometimes one would pull up a drowned rat along with the water. They road to the distant small town upon a horse drawn wagon. He said that when winter came they used barrel staves [The young generation probably has no idea what a barrel stave is.] tied to their shoes with rope as makeshift snow skis. Before he died at the age of ninety-two he had flown his own private small airplane and flew as a customer on commercial jet airliners. He and his family of course came to have a comfortable home with all the modern conveniences. As a young man he had an office job for the railroads where he would type through three layers of carbon paper on a manual typewriter. That built some very strong fingers! There were no computers and no keyboards back then. He bought his first electric typewriter in the 1960’s and for him, and all the family, it was a marvel. The family gathered around his color television to watch the first moon landing in 1969. I was eleven-years-old at the time and there are no words to describe how thrilling this momentous event was for us and the whole world. He bought a small handheld four function calculator when they were first available in the 1970’s. It cost $100 then which was like spending $500 now. If you had asked him about “The Good Old Days” he would have told you that life back then was a miserable struggle against almost starving and freezing to death. I have only spoken about technological things that have made our lives more secure, comfortable and convenient. During over the first two thirds of my grandfathers life non-male, non-white, non-christian, non-hetero people were, to varying degrees, openly suppressed, denigrated, devalued, humiliated, scorned, brutalized, ostracized and murdered. The “Good Old Days” never existed; it is a naive fantasy.

@jeffg1524

Жыл бұрын

@@clieding Absolutely, Chris. People who pine for the days before modern technology have no idea what they're talking about. Do we really want to go back to the days of horse and buggy, no indoor plumbing, no electricity, international travel by sail, no modern, life-saving medicine, etc....I mean c'mon. Most would wilt and curl up into a feeble ball if they had to face that kind of life. And do we really want to go back to a time where women couldn't vote and minorities were treated as less than human? To those who want a "simpler" time be thankful you live in this time, because for most of human history just surviving was the principal focus of daily life.

@romanmichaelhamilton8729

Жыл бұрын

Yes, all because of the TCP/IP network architecture that was designed going back to the 1950's with DARPA. Vint Cerf who works for Google was one of the primary engineers in this project. The most ingenious invention ever was TCP/IP. For me at least it is as I work in this same field. 🙂

I have watched this video exactly 10 years after it's uploaded. I remember 2012 as yesterday though, could be my best years, also the internet itself. Thank you for uploading this! About the people itself and the video, I don't feel out of it. 20th century, especially after Edwardian Era, everything feels modern to me and I am so lucky that I have used dial-up phone at my grandma's house when I was 6. I was born in '97.

My grandfather just passed away at 94. He was born in 1928. I would often ask him about the time period he grew up in because I found it facinating. He remembered when TVs came out and became popular. He also vividly remembered when dishwashers were invented.

Twenty years ago at my sister's house her daughter's phone broke and my sister told her to use the phone in the dining room. "That old phone has never worked" said my niece. "But I talked on it just the other day" said my sister. Then my niece went into the dining room and lifted the receiver and started stabbing her finger into the holes on the dial ring like it was a touch-tone phone. "Mom, I told you, this old phone won't work". It never has.

@suzannejensen275

4 жыл бұрын

ROFLMAO I can see that happening. What a great family memory to have. I bet it was so funny when your sister showed your niece how to use the rotary phone.☎😂

@ScootZMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Oof makes me feel old

@jtveg

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Brilliant.

@rupe53

3 жыл бұрын

@@midcenturymodern9330 ... a few years ago I changed from the phone company to my cable company, which uses a modem to tie in the land-line. Believe it or not, that modem supports pulse dialing and has enough juice to ring the bells on all 3 rotary phones in my home. One of them is a 20s vintage style like in this video's stage demo that's meant to be mounted under the counter in a business. It also has the external (extra loud) bell that would be mounted remotely so you could hear it all over the store.

@rupe53

3 жыл бұрын

@@midcenturymodern9330 ... you can thank the cost of labor for that. Even though older phones needed some maintenance the wear items were pretty easy to replace. These days you just pop in a new $10 phone (made outside the USA) every few years. I doubt we could make a phone for that price in this country.

Gramps at the meeting turns around and gives the eavesdropping lady the stink eye, love it!

I could watch this all day and not get bored of it

Remembering the satisfying feeling and sound if dialing a rotary phone, makes me wish I had one now.

"Aw shucks, you young'uns are never satisfied these days. Folks are getting more worried about being modern than they are over their three square meals". Boy, did Grandpa call it!

@jnichols3

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, he said "shucks". Thought it was something else.

@franksworld9922

3 жыл бұрын

As I am watching this on my new tablet.

@jtc1947

3 жыл бұрын

@ Poor Finian Watching some people with cell phones these days is really puzzling! Act like a cell phone is about like their lungs.

@marbleblue5127

3 жыл бұрын

Same as it ever was

@VibesOfVinegar

3 жыл бұрын

Says the person using the Internet.

I worked at "Western Electric" in the late '50's. When I lived in northern WI even till the early 60's, we had 10 party lines~~the greatest source of info for the town gossipers. LMAO

@markdemell8056

2 жыл бұрын

Well,, I see that your up to date on today;s acronyms.

@c0t0d0s7

2 жыл бұрын

@@markdemell8056 Whereas your use of punctuation is sadly lacking. 🤪

@martyjoseph9507

2 жыл бұрын

We had a party line of 5 in the late 70's just outside of Madison in the subdivision. It had to be one of the last offered because it was gone a few years later and mom was still pinching pennies.

@paulwarner5395

Жыл бұрын

My mother- in- law still thinks she's on a 10 party phone. When she answers the phone with "Are you there?" and talks real loud like the local battery on the phone is getting flat.

16:10 I liked when Grampa silently chastised the nosy neighbor. When that woman wasn't collecting dirt by way of phone, she was probably sitting in her front window scouting her street for any activity she disapproved of.

Star Trek nearly nailed it with the communicator in the mid 60's. If they only knew what was coming their way 30 years later!

my mum missed the town hall meeting where they explained how to email a photo

@msjdb723

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@jscott1000

3 жыл бұрын

I wish Apple would have a town meeting every time they roll out a new operating system update.

@bowes77

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

The most amazing thing about rotary dial phones is the Strowger switch that makes them possible and the story behind its invention. Almon Strowger was an undertaker who got fed up with the telephone operator sending calls to his rivals so he invented a method of "dialing" a number to connect to another telephone. Just seeing one of these devices operating is quite mesmerizing, they're so clever and were still in use in the UK in some remote exchanges in 1990. Pretty good for something invented in 1889. Google the name, it's fascinating.

@m3snusteve

Жыл бұрын

Yes fantastic I watched the bt video on KZread about telephone exchanges. The step by step (Strowger) system, cross bar system, Reed really, and system x a modern digital exchange? It was very interesting to see how how the technology developed through the decades to what we have now. Have I missed anything are modern digital telephone exchanges still based on System X? Great video thanks for sharing.

@Alanpie314

Жыл бұрын

In Alfred Hitchcock's film "Dial M for Murder" he shows the call being processed by electromechanical switches hammering out each digit.

@m3snusteve

Жыл бұрын

@@Alanpie314 I didn't know that.

@LK-pc4sq

Жыл бұрын

I think I seen one :) going to check it out again.

@davidcarson4421

Жыл бұрын

@@m3snusteve It’s interesting that the initial dial workhorse hardware was not a Bell System invention, although Bell improved upon it. I don’t know what the most modern circuit switching is; packet switching on digital networks.

Love to see these old people's shows, not today's freak shows.

I remember going to a school assembly when our town was going to get touch tone phones. They explained that some day (in the future) the * and # buttons would serve a purpose.

We used the dial tone to tune guitars.It was the "A" note.That would make it possible to start there then move on to the other strings

@joer3481

Жыл бұрын

A 440..:-)

@morbidmanmusic

Жыл бұрын

It was a slightly flat b

@volo870

Жыл бұрын

I would tune death growl vocals to THAT sound!

@roxannemaggiacomo4513

Жыл бұрын

That is cool to hear.

For those wondering about the dial tone sound: That wasn’t the actual dial tone sound coming from the display prop. That was just a cheap buzzer they were using to simulate dial tone for the demonstration so that it could be heard by everyone in the room. The dial tone people heard on the phone never sounded that crude. Source: Pacific Bell/SBC/AT&T switch tech, 30 years, retired.

@nunyabiznez6381

4 жыл бұрын

It's funny, when I first read your comment I wondered why you would need to explain the obvious and then I remembered that most people today were not born yet when all phones had dial tones. My boss thinks I'm quaint when I always listen for a dial tone before I dial forgetting that modern phones dont' have dial tones. My home phone does because it was made in 1948 and yes it still works. In fact it works better than every phone I have had since and I have gone through about a dozen cell phones which never seem to last more than about a year before they self destruct and I even had some extension phones that I got new that broke down/wore out within a few years. I find the old phone comfortable and easy to use. I also don't get robo calls on them. The new phones (read anything manufactured in the last 30 years) are awkward and uncomfortable to use and have more damned buttons than the space shuttle and are just as reliable.

@A1Skeptic

4 жыл бұрын

nunya biznez - Hi! I agree, and land lines usually had much better clarity. People on both ends of the call could actually talk at the same time and still hear each other. But land lines were on their way out when I retired. And it is amazing to have a Star Trek communicator in your pocket. 😃 Ed: It also interesting that few people are familiar now with the sound of a cheap hardware store buzzer and so can’t tell the difference between that sound and dial tone.

@DVincentW

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIpttdGkZaa9eZc.html

@mikefriedman5635

3 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznez6381 gramps?? is that you??

@sharonh2991

3 жыл бұрын

The dial tone, the signaling, rode the SS7 signaling network. I’m a former Bellhead too.

I'm 49 and I grew up in a small Southern town. These rotary dial phones were what we had for much of my childhood. As I recall we didn't get our first touchtone phone until sometime in the second half of the 80s. Also, until some point around the mid-80s, we only had to dial five numbers for local calls.

There were still plenty of candlestick phones in use in 1940, although the first widely-used combined-handset transmitter and receiver, the Western Electric model 102 (with separate ringer box), had been introduced in the late 1920s.

To think they actually showed films (film!) back in communities and schools at the time to educate people about the 'new' technologies! Love these

@9HighFlyer9

3 жыл бұрын

You mean like the 90s when we learned about the internet?

@gregoryclemen1870

Жыл бұрын

yup sure did, those old 16 mm projectors ,that are in the same place as the rotary phone

@montibarnett6740

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching Nathan's school those were the years

@alexkuhn5078

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 90s and we still used to watch physical films on old projectors up until about 6th grade

@bradthemusicduck4895

Жыл бұрын

Not at all surprising, as today's youth have zero clue how to dial on a rotary phone today -- unless they have a grandparent with an "ancient" phone in their home!

10:45 When I was a kid the dial tone was much more pleasant than that!

@dconov

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wonder how long between the release of the new system with that awful dialtone till they changed it to the one I was familiar with in the 60s, or a less irritating one before the 60s version, due to complaints from the public about how awful it was. I can't imagine picking up a phone and hearing that sound.

In rural Macon County, Mo. my relatives still had the wood, crank phone on the wall into the mid to late 50s.

This was very helpful. I was curios about these phones. Now I know how they work. Looking forward to the Change over.