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1. Rotary Dial Telephone
The formerly familiar swooosh as the caller rotated the dial clockwise to the "finger stop" and then the click-click-click as the dial returned counter-clockwise to the start position is now a novelty application that you can install on your iPhones for nostalgic yuks. Adolescents waiting in line nearby will wonder what the heck that sound is, while we older fogies will know you're poking fun at us and our ancient ways.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29230/11-sounds-your-kids-have-probably-never-heard
drm604
(16,230 posts)That won't work.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Some still have the bell.
Wolf
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Psshhhhh,woooorrrr...god, I can't even begin to replicate it. But I can still hear it.
valerief
(53,235 posts)That brings back all kinds of memories. I remember you could pick celebrity voices to tell you that you had mail. I had Mick Jagger. I can't even imagine doing something like that now. Very funny.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Now I'm just a tripping down memory lane!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I hated the chirpy electronic phones that were available in the 80s, so I hunted down a rotary model.
I had to buy it from the AT&T store - it was their last one (display model).
It has a real bell ringer, too. My kids love it - it's a novelty.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I video taped all our family home movies from the 50s-70s a couple years ago (then converted to DVD). I kept the projector sound as the soundtrack of the DVDs, since there was no other sound.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)because you can't pump your own gas in those states.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)when I noticed a sign threatening a $500 fine for doing so. Being from another state, I thought I discretion would be advisable.
There's no telling what these crazy Oregonians might do to me.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)sentence of cleaning up Bigfoot droppings, depending on how serious of an infraction it is.
drm604
(16,230 posts)It's a picture of a phone dial. You dial with your finger by touching each number and dragging it around to the finger stop. When you hit the stop it does a short vibration to simulate hitting it. When it spins back it makes the authentic clicking sounds.
You can actually make call with it although I rarely do; how often do you even call using a number anymore?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)LP2K12
(885 posts)I'm 29 and the only one I haven't heard is the Flash Cube.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)Some more
A hand crank adding machine
Short wave radio static
Steam train whistle
The plop of the morning paper on the front step
The rattle and clank of glass milk bottles being delivered
Prop driven airplane, especially an old low flying gasper like a crop duster
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and prop-driven airplanes are still everywhere. Crop dusters are usually turboprops these days, though.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And the woppitywoppity of us flapping the pic in the air because we thought it made them develop faster.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)with no pollution control at every intersection, being driven by housewives to get groceries.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)him for straight.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Not just because of the times but because of his own personality.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz. Although the most memorable aspect of that thing was the smell of the fluid.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)and an pedal-powered antique air organ
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I learned to type on one very similar to this one:
Dad did have one that was nearly as new as the one in the article that he used for his business, but the one I was allowed to use for schoolwork and for transcribing old wills and deeds for Mom's genealogy research was very similar to the Oliver in the YouTube clip. Mom found it at some junk or thrift shop for a few dollars. I couldn't type fast with it - the keys would entangle and lock up - but it was a great machine and I liked it a lot. It was also a lot easier to clean than the newer machines since all the keys were right out in the open.