that they could all receive free football-shaped telephones for signing up for the card.
lmao, but I'm pretty sure that is for a Sports Illustrated subscription.
We can dream…
Funny phones came up. My girlfriend told me yesterday she wanted one of those cool old phones with the wheel that spins. I'm like a rotary phone? I laughed that she didn't even know what they were called and then again at her telling me I was wrong when I stated they don't even work on the current system even if you got one.
You can receive calls on them but that's about it. Some VOIP systems do know how to interpret the pulses, but most don't.
Rummaging around in my workshop the other day I came across a box with several of my old us robotics 56k modems and realized that I have not had a landline in nearly 20 years.
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