MC Banhammer Posted:

We used to dial our phones. Do kids these days even know why the term is “dial”?

The were on cords, too. You couldn’t walk far from them and continue talking to someone. And if you called and they were busy, there was no such thing as “call waiting”. You could also prank call people because they had no idea who was calling them — no caller ID.

And we didn’t even own the phones – they were actually owned by the (only) phone company, and they charged us monthly for them. Long distance calls were a significant amount of money.