and there were only 3 networks so we all got the same news.. and they all went off the air at 12:30am.
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And yet, by 1979 I was still rolling with rotary.pic.twitter.com/4hLjKYtti9
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I have one of those still working, on a Land line that actually works when then is no power.
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The next best thing since sliced bread for my generation
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And weeeee liked it!
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There was Alternative surfing. “Let’s go surfing now, everybody’s learning how, come on safari with me.”
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That was a tough autumn to launch a new phone. What with John F Kennedy's assassination 4 days later.
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And ma bell owned the phone.
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I even know how to use a dial telephone. I consider part of my skill set. :)
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At the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens the telephone pavilion had a sample phone that you could try dialing.
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That would be because without the 1968 Carterfone decision, AT&T would not have permitted the creation of the Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone
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4 days before JFK was assasinated. Hard to look at dates like that without getting distracted.
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On November 18, 1963, Bell Telephone introduced the first electronic push-button phone system with touch-tone dialing