Do you remember the land lines?

[jimmy2]

They are getting odd but some people still have them. Do you still have one and why?

[MrOracle]

Ugh. I'm literally rewiring a bunch of them on Monday, and I really hate working on them. Unfortunately, some people still need to use faxes, and faxes are stuck on phone lines. I can't even tell you how much I hate dealing with them.

Trimline Phone - Touch Tone version

But, yes, I remember as a kid it was a BIG DEAL when my parents paid to have a second phone installed in their bedroom, with a TRIMLINE PHONE, which was the new hot thing. I was about 9 at the time.

A few years later, I realized that my own bedroom had a phone wallplate with a wire behind it, and so I bought a new wallplate with a modular jack on it, and bought my own phone, and bingo, I now had a phone in my own bedroom! Of course, the laws had changed in those few years that FINALLY allowed people to connect their own phones to the network - for many decades before, only AT&T equipment (i. e., phones) could be connected, and the phone company would have to come out and do the wiring, and you had to rent the phone from them.

The kitchen wall phone (rotary version)

Many people still only had the kitchen phone, usually with a very long wire so that you could stretch it into another room for "privacy."

The kitchen phone with the super long cord.

[Bluemax]

I no longer have a landline phone. Even when we had one, we rarely used it.

As a child, there were two phones in our house. One in the kitchen and one in my parents' room. Some time around the age of ten or so, my parents got a phone that could silence the ringer. My brother got his own line with his own number around the age of 18 or so. I got my own phone but same number as my parents around 16.

Phones were strange when I was a kid. I even remember rotary phones. I remember when all of Los Angeles and a good part of Lancaster/Palmdale had one area code (213). I remember out of zone calls. I remember when long distance calls were expensive and of heightened importance. I remember when overseas calls were expensive and you had to talk loudly to each other. And I remember the Cap'n Crunch phone phreaking.

[douride2]

Yes I still have a land line. The cell service sucks big time out where I live. I don't have a rotary dial like the one in the pic though. We had one of those at my parents house even when I moved out.

[DizzyDesii]

Yep i still have one. I mainly used the house phone up until i graduated high school lol. It had better reception out here in the countryside than the cells did

[jimmy2]

How much for that a month

[DizzyDesii]

120 cause its part of the phone/cable/internet package lol. Plus if i work from home it requires landline

[Goforit1010]

I still have one... because when the power for cell towers goes down (and it does from time to time - tornado, hurricane, snowstorm, 9-11, etc...), that landline will still work! At $20/mo, it's cheap insurance for communication.

We use it about half the time, cell fones the rest.

Idjit spammers seem to think that number is their play toy. I have my ways of getting back at them.

[jimmy2]

They charged me a 100 a month that why I got a cell

[Goforit1010]

We got ours as a combo deal with our internet. I realize it's VOIP and direct wired like the one in your pic, but I also have a whole house generator for power and HOPEFULLY the cable and the cell towers don't lose power at the same time.

[Goforit1010]

**... NOT direct wired...

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I totally remember land lines & I remember cordless phones the most & growing up I remember I made my own telephone system throughout the house & I even ran a telephone line outside & had the phone on a tree 100ft away.

[exitseven]

I still have one. Talking into a cellphone is like talking into a tin can.

You rang?

This phone belonged to my grandparents. It still works.

[ArtemisSilver]

Haven't had one in a few years, held on to mine for a very long time because cell plans are a rip-off in Canada, some of the most costly in the world.

Eventually though mid range androids started getting pretty good and I was able to get a lifetime staff discount at my last company so I finally made the switch.

Prior to that I was just using an iPod touch to do smartphone stuff

[ArtemisSilver]

The lines themselves have been converted to VOIP for over a decade now. Copper lines required a ton of maintenancem

[JoyGirl]

Nah, we used this…

[ChrisMaster69]

Yeah I have a house phone and house mobile

it’s a landline and also WiFi capable.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Yup, they are good during power outages because often they are on separate lines and still work when nothing else does.

[Chiarac2003]

We have a business line into the house.. so my parents and I have in our rooms … n the offices etc.

[Doom880]

Yes, we do have one in my house, however we rarely use it

[EyeKnowMeNahYou]

Hahahhaha yes , I was talking to an older person about this

[kinggeorge007]

Oh, why not? We still have one, even though it works through a fibre line. (not a copper line as it used to be)

[Fireguy17]

yes, we had party lines, 4 or so families used the same line.
So if they were talking to someone you had to wait until they were done before you could make a call.

[jimmy2]

Wow really

[Fireguy17]

Yep.
In order to call someone on you party you dialed 3 numbers and then hung up the phone for a little bit and it would ring that person's phone a couple of times, then you would pick up your hand piece and wait until they picked up.
If not you did it again.
To call my grandparents farm it was 836 and hang up, to call our house from the farm it was 863 and hang up.
If you wanted to call anyone else it was just 4 numbers, no 3 number prefix.

[Fuentes]

No lol landlines are posted in phonebooks and anyone can now track you with each move but they were probably less intrusive before things became more digital.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Verizon still offers them where Verizon Fios is not available but I dropped my landline a long time ago

[BCRanger10]

I do! My dad's parents had an old rotary phone in their house.

[shortster]

Of course, I am not that young.

[AFretiredTXn]

I still have a landline.

[Anonymous]

We used to have a phone that looked just like that

[Waldoe]

I used to be a "telephone man"... lol