When a person actually answered the phone when calling a business.
Banter Im so Old I remember
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I remember kids a few years older than me worrying about the draft.
And I remember when the draft ended
Got me beat
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When cars couldn't drive themselves.
When chocolate bars were almost twice the size they are now and half the price that they currently cost.
That I used a rotary dial phone to check the time.
I remember keypad mobile phones.
I had to Google what a rotary phone was. My Grandfather had one of those
Told you I was that old!
It’s all just numbers at the end of the day
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Rotary phones actually send electrical pulses, while touch tone home phones send tone frequencies. Very, very different systems and people were hacking the touch tone frequency systems, which wasn't posssible with electrical pulses (or at least not practical).
When concert tickets were 15-20 dollars
When a song had a statement, "Here's my number and a dime. Call me anytime!"
The big fat crayons and pencils
