1940 educational short by Bell Telephone showing customers recieving new dial phone how to use it
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My Mum had a row with a BT engineer moving her over to a push button phone. Apparently they’d sent numerous letters which she’d ignored so they just turned up on spec in the end.
“With all due respect you are literally the last person in the county with one”.
She still has a moan about it now. I think it’s hereditary, my Gran never let anyone forget her disapproval over currency going decimal.
I wonder what my thing will be (I might choose the demise of VHS just to be a git).
How anachronistic, and its all been replaced by the ‘cell phone’.
Benefits – universal connectivity.
Negatives – No operator assistance, no local or long distance information, no free white-pages or yellow-pages phone books, no public phone booths.
Later innovations which pretty much have disappeared are the at-location answering machines which recorded messages and blinked to let you know someone had called. If you had the need or desire to be reachable there were individual pagers which let you know someone wanted you to call them back.
Further negatives – My cell phone battery life sucks. I’m not giddy that my phone tracks me wherever I go. Bluetooth clarity sucks. I probably get half a dozen spam calls a day. If you don’t know a person’s number you’re sol. You always knew where your phone was. They were heavy and practically indestructible.
Needless to say I don’t feel compelled to be ‘connected’ 24/7. I’m not anti progress or innovation but much of the good stuff from this era is gone.
And how did they watch this video when there were no TVs? At the movie theater?