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Whoever made this meme is too young to have experienced “dialing” a phone number.
It is still called dialing despite no longer being rotary phones, but also, they didn't end the ability to use rotary phones until like 2005ish. I've used one before they ended it and I still have one that I wish I could use! Never know, OP could be like me lol.
Who's "they?" I recall my telco stopping support in the '90s, and we had to upgrade all the phones in the house.
May of been original to the house in the 60's, this wall mount still worked until house sold in '09.
And is germaine
Did you ever have to call for Air Superiority?
Yes but it was piloted by stoicgoose so it did not end well
Nice. This was the gamertag I picked to use on the DAY that Xbox Live came online. It's followed me like a specter ever since.
I was forced to change my gamertag soooo many times I can't remember them all.
Y tho?
They were all labeled as "offensive". One I remember was "CREAMPIEURWIFE"
Why did it stop working after the house was sold?
Cuz it was part of the estate and I kept it as a momento of my childhood. All the dialing a pain, especially international, so I did not try and use in my home.
Who’s “they?”
The powers that be. You know. Them.
Jeff Foxworthy.
Jeff Foxworthy did it?
Good question, I suppose it varies by company, or maybe country. At any rate I used it in the 90s (and later), so I still would've met your telco's cutoff date! Sounds like you used em too, so evidence that it is possible OP did continues to grow. There's at least two of us!
Dialed and typed is the same thing (?)
Time to dial up a new resume
For phone numbers I mean. Unless you had a rotary phone
Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.
Even on touch phones it's still called dialing though...
Just like it was for the button phones. It's the same as typing
But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.I appreciate your comment it makes a lot of sense how dialing could have decreased in usage. Also love your username!