(January 26, 2021 at 9:51 am)polymath257 Wrote:(January 25, 2021 at 12:03 pm)Angrboda Wrote: You recognize the sound of a rotary dial phone being dialed. Also, if you even know what a rotary dial phone is.
How about the sound the phone made when it was left off its cradle for too long?
Party lines.
Long distance cost *much* more. No, not international. Domestic long distance.
I had a debate with a friend in junior high school about whether digital or analog computers would be better.
I used to argue that tube stereo receivers and tube guitar amps were better than digital.