Young ones these days?phones!! do you older ones remember when..?!


Question: the only telephone you had in the house was fastened to the wall(usually in the cold hallway) or worse in the living room. And when a friend or BF rang the whole family could sit and listen in!! Cos Dad would always turn the TV down really low!! No mobiles or wireless in those days!


Answers: the only telephone you had in the house was fastened to the wall(usually in the cold hallway) or worse in the living room. And when a friend or BF rang the whole family could sit and listen in!! Cos Dad would always turn the TV down really low!! No mobiles or wireless in those days!

How could I forget.I remember the party-line,no caller ID,rotary dial,& cord going into the wall.The length of the cord determined how far you could go.So much different today,now you can't just leave home & not have to answer the phone because it goes w/ you.Sometimes I miss those days,I never imagined as a kid that people would someday be able to come to my house carrying their own phone & sit here talking to other people on it.That can be annoying.

Yeah,used to have to sit on the stairs in the hallway!

I do remember them days

don't forget party line where someone down the street could pick up and tell you to get off because they wanted to use the phone.. lol

then its better nowadays isnt it ?
more privacy lol

nope. your just old.

Yes! it was horrible! no privacy. Today′s generation have it all. Not fair!

??Telephone in the house??? If you saw a mobile phone when I was a lad, some jack the lad had just nicked it from the local Red phone box down the street.

You lucky you have phone,
We have to make smoke to send message,
No bloody good at night nobody see message.
Count your blessings.

Lol, bang on.........old, quarry tiled floor in hallway, when it snowed it was colder still, LOL, How times have changed.

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haha yer ours was in the hallway,makes me shudder just thinking of that draft from under the front door,

funny its all true,...i remember my first mobile phone it was the size and weight as a car battery. and a handset on a cord ...oh and a 3ft antenna

I remember it well. Don't forget that the phone was always a rotary dial. (I can almost hear the voices quizzically asking, "a what??")

I do love when people proclaim that today's situation, with everyone having his/her own mobile phone, is so much better because of *privacy* -- considering that most people tend to use their phones in public places, where they then speak way too loudly. The phones might have been rotary dial in the old days, but I was never forced to listen to the details of anyone's hot (or not so hot date) while trapped in an elevator. Pros and cons, I guess. Ah, well....

I remember so well. Being moaned at cause you were on the phone to your school friend for over a hour, even though you'd only left them a few hours ago.

What did we found to talk about?????

I remember the days when all there was, was a cream BT Phone with rotary dial on it and it was always in the coldest part of hallway and the only phone in the house

Worse! I remember as children us all been covered up in scarves and coats and having to hold on to the pram as we walked to the nearest phone box about a mile a way so my mum could make a call. I remember all the big brown spiders and webs in the phone box.

When we got a phone, we thought we were so posh and all the neighbours used to come in with their 10p pieces to make a call! You'd have to literally dial the number waiting for the dial to go back into position before you could enter the next digit. I'm so nostalgic now!

Ooh, and remember everyone used to answer their phone by saying what their number was?!!

Just realise how old I sound, I'm only 29!!

I used to sit behind the sofa for privacy while my older brother killed himself laughing or goofed around whilst I spoke to my boy friend!

Oh how glad I am that technology has moved on!



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