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2kcore · 2 years
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Jumbo button telephone, 1980
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cravinganescape · 8 months
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Rare GUESS vintage clear landline phone ☎️💕
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wordfromoursponsor · 6 months
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"Past, present, future?" (1959)
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plebeiangoth · 1 year
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Wanna see the most Y2K thing???
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A mini landline telephone. Not only is it slightly translucent, it glows in the dark.
I don't remember when I got this but it was from a friend (I forget which one) as a birthday present sometime in the early 2000's. It came with an earpiece which is the only way to talk and listen with it, but that was DOA so I had to use another headset. It looks like there's a mic or speaker on the front but I opened it up and there isn't any such thing behind those holes.
I tried making a call to the landline from my cellphone to see if it still rings but I don't think it's working right. It's not ringing and I can't seem to make calls from it. Granted I don't have a 2.5mm headset to use with it at the moment, so maybe that's needed for it to function at all?? There's a light above the TALK button which lights up when I press the button, so it's getting power when it's plugged in.
I'm gonna do some work on it. You'll hear from me when/if I get this baby working. I really want to set it up to take calls directed to my cellphone!
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christoph-letkowski · 10 months
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June 16th, he posted this photo on hias Instagram. Which coincidentally, today is his 41th birthday.
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Day 93.
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Hey look, it's that phone from old movies!
These phones were, okay, they were made for a long time. You didn't know this exact telephone had a name, but it does: the Model 500. It first started rolling off the assembly lines in 1950, and kept on being manufactured until... take a guess.
1984. They stopped selling them in 1984.
These devices were engineered to hell and back. They're heavy because the phone company expects you to push the thing off onto the floor by mistake at least once, you clumsy idiot. They're mechanically simple inside because when you somehow manage to break it by dropping it on the floor, the phone company wants it to be easy to fix. The letters don't include Q or Z because who needs Q or Z amirite, and you can bet that was backed up by actual research into how much people would need to spell QUININE or ZEBRA-22 for their weird phone number mnemonics or whatever
Even the weird dial is designed to work perfectly with the telephone company's switching equipment, the huge electronic network that magically gets your voice from your microphone to their speaker. It took ages to dial a zero because it took the phone company ages to recognize that you dialled a zero.
Time taken: twenty-four minutes, which would be almost enough time to say "time taken twenty-four minutes" if you had to dial out the letters using one of these ancient monsters.
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Oh god I've become one of those telephone people, at least for the duration of today's drawing.
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svengaakuinhirvi · 2 years
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coastfeeling · 2 years
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Time machine! 
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umbra-art-elements · 2 years
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wandererofdeserts · 3 months
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I was at an antiquarian today and i found these
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I'll later post the other pics of the other time i went there, I've reached the post limit
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oblivionsdream · 16 days
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Character idea- a medium runs an antique store and helps ghosts who haunt old objects move onto the after life. One of these ghosts haunts a 1950's rotary telephone and the medium is able to talk to her through the phone specifically but this ghost refuses to move on. Obviously they're lesbians.
Also there's a poltergeist who haunts the store and is just a pest that knocks shit over. The medium never sees the poltergeist (because ghosts can choose to allow her to see them) and so she thinks he's just an annoying pest. Turns out the poltergeist is a ghost cat just doing cat shit.
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tarkofetis · 1 year
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nzdraws · 1 year
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old telephone
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Debbie Harry in the music video for Blondie’s Hanging on the Telephone, 1978.
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webdiggerxxx · 7 months
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꧁★꧂
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