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Post the best selling phone from the year you were born.
All these kids posting iPhones
Here. Hold my beer.
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Post the best selling phone from the year you were born.
All these kids posting iPhones
Here. Hold my beer.
reshared this
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647
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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)
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647 • •@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:
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Jonathan Lamothe
Unknown parent • •@The Doctor @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 @Judy Anderson @Nömenlōony I didn't know this existed until just now, but now my life is not complete until I own one.
I don't even have a landline.
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Just this person, ya know?
Unknown parent • • •Paul_IPv6
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •The Doctor
in reply to Paul_IPv6 • • •@paul_ipv6 Up until '87 or '88 for what became Bell Atlantic.
And those phones could probably have stopped a .45 ACP round.
Just this person, ya know?
in reply to The Doctor • • •Lockpick Extreme
in reply to The Doctor • • •The Doctor
in reply to Lockpick Extreme • • •Paul_IPv6
in reply to Lockpick Extreme • • •germany made the same argument about phones and modems "causing harm to the network" if not approved.
The Doctor
in reply to Just this person, ya know? • • •Sasha
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •In Germany in 1966 it was the Fernsprechtischapparat FeTAp 61
Nicknamed "grey mouse".
The Doctor
Unknown parent • • •Esther Payne
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Telefon
digitaltmuseum.noAaronDavid
in reply to Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸 • • •@hakona Rented from The G.P.O. later British Telecom, then B.T.
Ebly Pamplemousse
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Bryan L. Fordham
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •don’t know if it was the best selling on 1976, but it was popular and, honestly hard to beat
Jutta Wagner
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Jutta Wagner
in reply to Jutta Wagner • • •Ben, sleepy version.
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Ben. No, not that one. (@BenCotterill@mastodon.social)
Ben. No, not that one. (Mastodon)Howard Chu @ Symas
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •The Doctor
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I finally returned them to the RBOC when I sold the house.
C bô la pluie
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •au
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •not the best selling but one of the most popular.
Andy
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Ray McCarthy
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mobile phones (analogue) arrived in mid to late 1980s. Smart ph 1998.
Jonathan Lamothe
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Unknown parent • •Karl Baron
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •@mdhughes
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647
in reply to Karl Baron • • •youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5gh…
Sesame Street: The Martians Discover a Telephone
Sesame Street (YouTube)lkh
in reply to Karl Baron • • •Best phone ever!
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