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We had this awesome "princess phone":

But even before the Ma Bell breakup, but after they let other devices on the lines, I got some silly phone from Sears (I *think* mine was Snoopy, but it's been 40 years)

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@Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 @Judy Anderson @Nömenlōony My brother had a hot dog phone. It was pretty cool. Interestingly, you didn't have to lift it to listen in on a conversation already happening on the line.

Edit: I'm pretty sure it was this one:
I don't know what to tell you that the text of the post doesn't. It's a phone shaped like a hot dog.

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@me @mdhughes @nosrednayduj I always wanted one of these. They're amazingly expensive on the collector's market, though.
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@The Doctor @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 @Judy Anderson @Nömenlōony Not exactly. It's more or less just a standard VoIP service, but some SDFers have hooked some interesting equipment up to it. If memory serves, I think @publius has connected a payphone to it?
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my college room-mate, former football player (defensive) got mad at his girlfriend and threw the receiver at the floor with all his strength. our floor was 1/4"/6mm of cheap carpet, no foam, then solid concrete.

the receiver bounced against the floor so hard it actually tore up a divet in the carpet, when flying across the room to the length of the cord and snapped back against the floor again. there was a scar in the concrete where the divet had been torn out. the phone didn't even have a visible scratch.

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@drwho @paul_ipv6 the Carterphone decision allowed 3rd party phones to connect to to the Bell System network in the US. Prior to that, you could only lease your phone from your local phone company. Bell argued and lost that 3rd party phoned and devices could cause "harms to the network".
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"best selling" ? Ha! You had to *rent* it. The model you show looks like it would be available four years after I was born. Available in colours: grey, This would be available when I was born: digitaltmuseum.no/021026003246…

Telefon

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@hakona Rented from The G.P.O. later British Telecom, then B.T.
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Earlier than a certain date (by country in Europe) you would have had difficulty in buying a phone & it would have been illegal to connect it. Only the National State P&T could fit a phone & you couldn't buy it. After that was abolished they still charged rental (early 2000s) in Ireland on the old phone. Unless you told them you didn't want it, then they would cancel the rental charge & tell you to keep the phone.
Mobile phones (analogue) arrived in mid to late 1980s. Smart ph 1998.

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