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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 17, 2015 10:52:32 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember that if I called someone in my hometown I only needed to dial four digits. I have a landline and have never owned a cellphone/ smartphone. I have an email address, but I'm not on any social media sites. I do have Netflix, but I spend more time with DVD rentals than streaming. I mostly stick to tv shows for the streaming. I love sports, so I'm fine with cable as it is. I figure when I drop all the channels I don't watch, I'll still wind up with the same bill. I think my transistor radio is the only "wireless" device in my house. I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. Im NOT old enough, and unless you included that would have assumed you were talking about a 900 call. The oldest phone I can remember having was a touch tone corded wall mount phone in the kitchen. But my grandmother still had a few rotary ones even after touch tone was out. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 11:10:07 GMT -5
Um, I'm officially NOT old.
Thank you for making me feel young, thread!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 17, 2015 11:10:49 GMT -5
My wife's grandmother was still renting a rotary phone from the local phone company until up to maybe five or seven years ago. I had to rewire her jack and get her her own up-to-date phone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 11:39:41 GMT -5
My wife's grandmother was still renting a rotary phone from the local phone company until up to maybe five or seven years ago. I had to rewire her jack and get her her own up-to-date phone. When I was little in the 80's, that was the only way to get a phone in my area. I'm not sure if that is how it was EVERYWHERE, but I was in a more rural area, so we had to rent phones. And they were rotary phones. I learned quickly how to be very careful when dialing the phone and how not to waste time. |
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Post by berkley on Apr 17, 2015 11:51:14 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. My Grandparents still had a party line when I was young. You only picked up if it was their ring. We never had one that I remember, but they still had party lines in areas where I live (out on the north-side desert) into the late 70s/early 80s. Same with me - or with my grandparents, I should say. I also remember having to dial just the 4-digit numbers . |
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 17, 2015 13:30:22 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember that if I called someone in my hometown I only needed to dial four digits. I have a landline and have never owned a cellphone/ smartphone. I have an email address, but I'm not on any social media sites. I do have Netflix, but I spend more time with DVD rentals than streaming. I mostly stick to tv shows for the streaming. I love sports, so I'm fine with cable as it is. I figure when I drop all the channels I don't watch, I'll still wind up with the same bill. I think my transistor radio is the only "wireless" device in my house. I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. Then again, there's no telling how many people are "listening in" to your calls these days. (the company you work for, the telephone company, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, Bill's cats etc.) |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Apr 17, 2015 13:46:17 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. Then again, there's no telling how many people are "listening in" to your calls these days. (the company you work for, the telephone company, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, Bill's cats etc.) Reminds me of a George Carlin bit. Someone he knew believed his phone was being bugged by the FBI, so whenever it rang he answered "F--k Hoover, hello". |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 17, 2015 13:57:37 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. Then again, there's no telling how many people are "listening in" to your calls these days. (the company you work for, the telephone company, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, Bill's cats etc.) Bill Clinton's cats? I mean I know he likes _____! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 18:35:00 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. My Grandparents still had a party line when I was young. You only picked up if it was their ring. We never had one that I remember, but they still had party lines in areas where I live (out on the north-side desert) into the late 70s/early 80s. I think I experienced that once when I was really young, but can't remember where. I'm sure my phone was never like that. Also, not sure my household ever had a rotary phone. My great grandma had a really old one though, all metal and mounted to the wall. Not the crank kind, but not much newer either. I did live where cable wasn't an option, at all. Just antenna TV. I spent many years like that. Also had a black and white TV growing up. Something from the thrift store. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 18:44:02 GMT -5
I can remember when everyone had that giant antenna on top of their house. EVERYONE.
And I remember my great grandma's giant satellite dish in the back yard. I always wondered why she didn't have every channel on the planet with that thing.
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Post by Randle-El on Apr 17, 2015 20:19:00 GMT -5
I can remember when everyone had that giant antenna on top of their house. EVERYONE. And I remember my great grandma's giant satellite dish in the back yard. I always wondered why she didn't have every channel on the planet with that thing. It's not giant, but I still have an antenna on top of my house for receiving over-the-air HD signals. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 5:54:30 GMT -5
Has anyone tried Roku?
We're really considering this over the Amazon TV box.
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Post by Randle-El on Apr 20, 2015 10:45:56 GMT -5
Has anyone tried Roku? We're really considering this over the Amazon TV box. I have an older model, I believe it's first generation. I like that it's expandable -- you can install apps for different streaming services. There's the standard Netflix, Hulu, Amazon video, etc. But you can also install apps for a bunch of other, lesser-known services as well. The one thing I don't like about it is that the Hulu app sucks. It's unstable, and will periodically freeze on you. However, this may be a non-issue with the latest Roku players so don't necessarily let that detract you from getting one. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 11:10:53 GMT -5
I can remember when everyone had that giant antenna on top of their house. EVERYONE. I did too. In my area we had Antennas in everyone house until 1984 of where Cable came in and took over everything. That's the first 23 years of my life. Cable from 1984 to Present. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 11:42:26 GMT -5
I can remember when everyone had that giant antenna on top of their house. EVERYONE. And I remember my great grandma's giant satellite dish in the back yard. I always wondered why she didn't have every channel on the planet with that thing. Are you talking about the towers and then the antenna was on top? If so, I had one. And I climbed it, like, every single day of my life from age 4 until probably 8 or 9 years old. |
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