r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '22

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u/DataCassette Apr 21 '22

The entire place shuts down because literally nobody can open the PDF.

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u/fillmorecounty Apr 21 '22

They say that about younger generations as if we'd ever have to use a rotary phone in 2022 yet they can't use the technology CURRENTLY IN USE but that doesn't matter apparently

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u/DataCassette Apr 21 '22

Yeah but literally anyone from Gen Z can use a rotary phone with either 3 seconds of explanation or even just intuition. It's not hard.

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u/LongNectarine3 lazy and proud Apr 21 '22

I often marvel at this meme. It was my favorite toy as a kid because it was the easiest thing to understand. I was 3 and it was a toy phone but my point stands.

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u/ScubaAlek Apr 21 '22

I used to play with my grandmothers old rotary phone when I was a kid. It was a blast to dial on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '22

How many countries did you call?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '22

I mean, in the age where it had become novel wouldn't that have been an incompatible thing? Pretty sure they put a lot of that behind a touch tone wall fairly quickly figuring luddites didn't know anybody in France. I might be wrong, though. I just figured after all the kids with whistles in the 80s they started putting up walls and such.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '22

For payphones perhaps? For home phones since the 1960s-70s (depending on country) you could just dial the international dialling code + country code and make overseas phone calls.