My 7-year old calls a landline phone as a "Grammy phone" because that's what her grandmother owns. That phones could not always show cartoons and operate games makes her jaw drop open.
These millennials aren't that young, but they didn't grow up with rotary phones, cassette tape players, record players, and mechanical alarm clocks. Their grandparents, though, did. In this video from Elite Daily, the older folks teach their grandkids how to operate these sophisticated gadgets.
-via Huffington Post
Reminds me of when my older son, a teen at the time, found my pocket Pickett slide rule. He asked me what it was and I proceeded to show him. He was amazed. I gave it to him and he used it to check the numbers on his physics home work, one of the functions it was really good for. Isn't it funny we still say we are "dialing" someone when we call them on our cell phones?
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Kids today will also never have to deal with that ever annoying busy signal. Knowing they're there but you can't get through at that moment, then repeatedly calling back hoping to catch them.
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Kids today don't know what it's like to ever have to open a phone book, rather than just throw it directly into the trash can every year.
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Ah, progress. Where does Superman do his quick changes in 2015? When was the last time you saw a phone booth? Tempus fugit.
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