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Why? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 24 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

You also bend, move, carry, unplug/replug, use a charge cable a lot more than we did land line phones.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    ... Tell me how young you are without telling me how young you are.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Maybe their family really didn't use it that often. Even in the 90s, I don't think my family used the landline phone more than once a day on average. I think that would have only been different in the early 80s and before due to not having answering machines to filter the incoming calls down to those we cared about.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah, but I never saw anyone talk on the phone without also fiddling with the cord with their fingers (often, trying to undo those weird half-twist pairs that would form). Or at least not until cordless phones started getting popular.

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