I knew this was coming eventually, but it finally happened. I asked a class today, as I periodically do, “how many people here have a landline phone at home” and the answer was zero.
“Plain old telephone service”, used to mean the once ubiquitous 48V,20ma local loop. The kids today think it means a cellphone with no data service.
That Apple origin story about Woz and Jobs financing the company by selling Blue Boxes for making free long distance calls requires a lot more explanation than it once did.
“Well, you could take this tone generator up to a payphone (ask your grandparents) and use to make free long distance calls (ask your grandparents), but you had to be careful that Ma Bell (ask your grandparents) didn’t catch you."
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
