• myyass@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s right; go to a pay phone and blow a whistle that you got from a cereal box to make your call.

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      2 days ago

      i missed the era. but we used to blow whistle into phones just to torture the unfortunate ones.

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        1 day ago

        You can still rarely find payphones, saw one somewhere and it’s like going to a museum and seeing a dinosaur.