Landline users remain proudly ‘old-fashioned’ in the digital age

I still have mine and I still have a VCR but I rarely use it. I watch tv at night in my bedroom on a Sony 20 inch Wega tube tv I bought at the WIZ in November 2000.

God, I need my landline back.

I've no objection to having a semi-antique landline phone for aewthetics. I suppose it could have a practical use for some apartment building intercom and front desk communications - it you're home- but even those are being replaced by connections to your mobile so that you can answer a call from more than one or two locations in a house - or from another part if the world (or not.)

But beyond that, just use a fucking mobile. The people who complain about sound quality on a mobile are phoning in on their Jitterbugs from another century.

It's like the people who are so proud not to have a TV that they can scarcely talk about anything other than not having a TV.

My office recently removed all the phones. The only way to make a call now is to use your own phone or do it over Microsoft Teams.

Nothing major was lost since I can't remember the last time I ever had to use my office phone.

Hello?

Get your horse out of my garden! 🐴

I don’t have a horse!

That’s good because I don’t have a garden. 🪴

I have a landline phone but it’s connected via VOIP so it’s not a true landline with its own power supply.

I recently asked my echo boomer mom if she could go back to those days when everything wasn't as connected (landline phones, no internet) — she told me that she would gladly accept that type of situation and live WELL, even though she would miss the internet dearly.

I think I would die or something. If my internet connection is out for 20 minutes I start to feel a bit queasy. It means I have to suffer through....daytime television.

Actually, echo boomer isn't the right term, even though it makes sense. My mom is just an extremely late Boomer, even though she aligns more with Gen X in her faculties. Excuse me.

I expect businesses to have their identity displayed so I will answer. Once they started using the personal cell phones like r4 mentioned, that largely stopped. If a call is not identified, I don't answer/it's scam likely to my phone. That business loses my call and loses me. Too bad, capitalist. That's too fast and loose with my info. Land lines have a place in business.

R6 so it’s not a landline. Duh.

I got rid of my land line about ten years ago when water got on the line and it automatically dialed 911. I didn’t even have a physical phone the first time, my land line was for my internets but that’s what phone lines do when they get wet, they call 911. I had cops at my door at 2am making sure I wasn’t dead. Second time it happened again at 2 am I did have a phone.

That time I’m standing at the door, static-y phone in hand explaining what’s happening to the 911 operator and handing the phone to the cop at the front door so he can hear it. I cancelled my land line the next day.

No cell phone, just a VOIP home phone. Life is simple and good.

[quote] The only way to make a call now is to use your own phone or do it over Microsoft Teams.

They shifted the cost of phones to the employees, then.

I'm not like other guys. I write thank you notes in cursive. I say "bee's knees" instead of thug talk like "dope" or "groovy". I calculate my tip with an abacus. I fall for romance scams online.

What R6 said. I was informed that many "landlines" are just cosplay.

I have one with Ooma (internet) but with my new condo the reception is fine so moving away from using

I was trapped in a fire in the 80's and it was the phone that saved me. Amazingly the next day the phone did not work and lines had to be replaced. I always worry that I will leave my cell phone downstairs or it will go dead and if I had another fire I would have nothing to call anyone with so I have kept mine. I've had it so long it still only costs me $40 a month and is worth the peace of mind.

^ hun, you probably can find cheaper options - $40 seems high.

$40 a month is very expensive. If you are a senior citizen, see if there is a deal through a city agency or phone company.

what if the fire keeps you far from the landline? You'd want your cell phone, which might be in your pocket or near you.

For piece of mind, you could keep CHEAP cellphones plugged in a couple places if you have a large home. IN man countries the emergency number connects without any paid plan, by the way.

When the next world war starts satellites are the first thing going down. Having a landline makes sense if its affordable. It will be a field day for criminals if 90% of the population has no way to call 911.

Landlines will be useless if the call is actually made via internet somewhere in the pipeline between the two parties.

I prefer talking on a landline

I love you r14. And I don't need your bank info to obtain my sizable and princely Nigerian inheritance either!

Chatty Cathy in the preview image is having so much fun, just gabbing away like there's no tomorrow. Oh, how I miss those times.

Interesting article, especially about the northeast and most landlines are really VoIP now even if connected to wire I guess they mean.

My local phone company wanted to run their fiber to the house because they were discontinuing use of the old copper lines. I was afraid that they cut the two other lines to the house and so I finally cut the phone off.

In the downtown of my city there is a huge windowless building that is the phone switching station. I wonder what will become of that very valuable property. There are also enormous amounts of copper line all across this county, but it would very expensive to dig up.

Some people are naive. They believe their landline phone is still landline technology that will survive Armageddon, and that they are ordering Monkey Wards products through the Monkey Wards catalogue.

[quote] thug talk

MARY!

People seem to be using "landline" to include VOIP service (e.g., Ooma or your internet provider). Landline used to mean only COPPER WIRE landlines -- i.e., the old Bell system wired connection to your central office. Now people seem to use it to mean anything other than a mobile phone.

We have a landline on Cape Cod with the same number my parents had. They bought the place in 1968.

I have to say that with the iffy cell service in our neighborhood, the landline and our generator are priceless.

Hello?

Do you eat shit? 💩

What?!!

Do you eat shit?! 💩

Who in the fuck is this?!

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You son of a bitch! If I find out who you are, I’ll force you to eat my ass!

LOL LOL LOL! Do it, I’d like that!

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Does the guy in the original post also sell pencils?