• edric
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    452 months ago

    Whoever made this meme is too young to have experienced “dialing” a phone number.

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      2 months ago

      It is still called dialing despite no longer being rotary phones, but also, they didn’t end the ability to use rotary phones until like 2005ish. I’ve used one before they ended it and I still have one that I wish I could use! Never know, OP could be like me lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        Who’s “they?” I recall my telco stopping support in the '90s, and we had to upgrade all the phones in the house.

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          42 months ago

          May of been original to the house in the 60’s, this wall mount still worked until house sold in '09.

          And is germaine

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          Good question, I suppose it varies by company, or maybe country. At any rate I used it in the 90s (and later), so I still would’ve met your telco’s cutoff date! Sounds like you used em too, so evidence that it is possible OP did continues to grow. There’s at least two of us!

          • edric
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            142 months ago

            Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.

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              Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…

              Just like it was for the button phones. It’s the same as typing

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                32 months ago

                But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
                The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.

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                  22 months ago

                  I appreciate your comment it makes a lot of sense how dialing could have decreased in usage. Also love your username!