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hey, do you guys remember when houses had landlines? you would call someone and be like "hi, can I speak with Becky" and it was her brother on the line and he would ask "who's this" and you would say "uh, it's James, from school", and then you'd hear him yell "Becky, it's your BOYFRIEND JAMES on the phone" and she'd yell back "he's NOT my BOYFRIEND, JERK, he's just some guy I have to do a project with", and then she'd pick it up and say "I got it, you can hang up now" and you'd hear a click but you weren't sure if really hung up or he was just faking it and also you were kind of hurt because it would be pretty cool if you were her boyfriend. anyway, this thread is mostly about how those curly cords sometimes get that inverted curl in them. what is that thing? how do you get rid of it?
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I have a landline and a corded phone because I live in sf and the cell service dies instantly in an earthquake you get those curlies out by just wrapping them towards the nearest end but they never entirely go away
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Nov 20, 2014 06:49
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i remember land lines, op
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Nov 20, 2014 06:50
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we were poor when I was a kid so we had a "party line" which meant we paid less and we shared the line with someone else so sometimes I'd pick up the phone and a lady would be talking on it and I'd say "oops sorry" and hang up and try later
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Nov 20, 2014 06:50
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I'm actually sad I never got to experience phone phreaking
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Nov 20, 2014 06:52
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why can't you just get them out by doing the opposite of how they got there in the first place? which I don't actually know how that happens
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Nov 20, 2014 06:52
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in the mid-90s my friend got TWO land lines and got bonded ISDN for something insane like 128kbps it was sick, the isa card was a foot long
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Nov 20, 2014 06:53
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The Management posted:why can't you just get them out by doing the opposite of how they got there in the first place? which I don't actually know how that happens I don't know but that doesn't work with babies either
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Nov 20, 2014 06:54
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rotor posted:in the mid-90s my friend got TWO land lines and got bonded ISDN for something insane like 128kbps it was sick, the isa card was a foot long yeah, my buddy at UCSB had that, he taught me about IP masquerading on their dedicated Linux server. those guys were downloading Linux ISOs 24/7
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Nov 20, 2014 06:58
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when i was a kid in the 80s you could dial phone numbers without ANY area codes, even local ones my phone number was 7096. another girls was 8900 those were sufficient for dailing if you wanted someone out of our suburb you added a area code. now those area codes are mandatory but you dont need national area codes unless dialing out the province or whatever
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Nov 20, 2014 07:05
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in the state I'm in you don't have to dial an area code and it throws me off when people give me their numbers
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Nov 20, 2014 07:32
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haha ok people don't give me their phone numbers I'm so lonely oh god
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Nov 20, 2014 07:32
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faxlore posted:I'm actually sad I never got to experience phone phreaking i managed to get a black box working in the UP of michigan on vacation around....'94? and i beiged all day erry day for half of my teen years. 500 foot roll of 26 gauge speaker wire with alligator clips on the end 
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Nov 20, 2014 07:35
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rotor posted:we were poor when I was a kid so we had a "party line" which meant we paid less and we shared the line with someone else so sometimes I'd pick up the phone and a lady would be talking on it and I'd say "oops sorry" and hang up and try later mlyp
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Nov 20, 2014 07:43
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echinopsis posted:when i was a kid in the 80s you could dial phone numbers without ANY area codes, even local ones same but 6 digits instead
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Nov 20, 2014 07:44
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Nov 20, 2014 07:45
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when i was in middle school i made a $20 phone call to a friend that was 10 miles away, while we were both trying to beat myst. in upper michigan, 10 miles away was a long distance call.
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Nov 20, 2014 07:48
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one day i was walking in the mall one day and i overheard some random kids saying "did you hear? new long distance code is 10-10-613" or something and sure enough it worked for like six months
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Nov 20, 2014 07:50
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if you dialled 137 it would ring you back after a minute,. many pranks were had
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Nov 20, 2014 07:57
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Jonny 290 posted:one day i was walking in the mall one day and i overheard some random kids saying "did you hear? new long distance code is 10-10-613" or something and sure enough it worked for like six months i found out a code but it was for a carwash as a youth this meant "hey man, that grass is saying 'huss on me, huss on me'" (we said huss for burnout or whatever), and then go get free carwash. many times a night
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Nov 20, 2014 07:58
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wow phones sucked way back in the olden days huh?
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Nov 20, 2014 08:09
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Farecoal posted:wow phones sucked way back in the olden days huh? hell yeah they did. imagine having your only phone tethered to the wall in your living room. good luck having a private conversation when anyone is home. if you were lucky the cord was long enough to go into the kitchen.
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Nov 20, 2014 15:54
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faxlore posted:I'm actually sad I never got to experience phone phreaking i bought a greeting card with a recordable message thing inside it and i ripped the guts out and recorded the quarter tone into it. heh, get wrecked bell atlantic, fuckin owned.
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Nov 20, 2014 15:57
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the old phone system kept phone conversations meaningful and you actually had to prepare and be eloquent and think before you spoke now every tom dick and harry has a mobile phone that they can just put up to they ear and hear your verbal diarrhea at any time of the day in complete privacy the modern mobile phone will be the downfall of man
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Nov 20, 2014 16:10
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lol ur old
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Nov 20, 2014 16:11
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The Management posted:anyway, this thread is mostly about how those curly cords sometimes get that inverted curl in them. what is that thing? how do you get rid of it? i think it happens when the cord spirals onto itself this happens because most people are right handed, so they grab the phone with their right hand, then flip to left hand at some point, then hang it up, putting one complete turn of the handset in there repeat that a bunch of times and you have a ruined cord
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Nov 20, 2014 16:14
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rotor posted:we were poor when I was a kid so we had a "party line" which meant we paid less and we shared the line with someone else so sometimes I'd pick up the phone and a lady would be talking on it and I'd say "oops sorry" and hang up and try later YOSPOS is my party line.
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Nov 20, 2014 16:29
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Citizen Tayne posted:YOSPOS is my party line. call me at YP7-5309
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Nov 20, 2014 16:31
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once a week i unclip the curly cord from the handset and let it dangle to get rid of the overall loops once a month i also untwist the small loops and horseshooes, same thing you unclick it from one end and work it out the alternate to this is to get 2-5 pencils depending on lenth of curly cord and slide them into the cord like your sounding and then your phone cord is now a jointed stiff unusuable piece of crap
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Nov 20, 2014 17:58
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also lol if youre old enough to have letter+number calls or only needing less than 7 digits. did have a novelty kitchen wall phone with a straight up rotary dial until 99 i think? gently caress makin calls on it but it was right there ready to ring and intercept the school automated calling cuz i skipped class
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Nov 20, 2014 18:00
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her name was leslie but yeah i remember that
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Nov 20, 2014 18:06
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The Management posted:yeah, my buddy at UCSB had that, he taught me about IP masquerading on their dedicated Linux server. those guys were downloading Linux ISOs 24/7 we used it for quake
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Nov 20, 2014 18:09
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Ruby got Railed posted:straight up rotary dial it's hilarious and kind of cool how backwards-compatible pots service is
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Nov 20, 2014 18:31
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when i was a kid, my friend had a touchtone phone except it was fake touchtone. you would press a button but there was no tone, you could hear the little clicks as if it were mimicking a rotary dial phone. after pressing a number, you had to wait a second for the clicks to finish before pressing the next number. hosed up but true.
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Nov 20, 2014 18:35
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BANME.sh posted:when i was a kid, my friend had a touchtone phone except it was fake touchtone. you would press a button but there was no tone, you could hear the little clicks as if it were mimicking a rotary dial phone. after pressing a number, you had to wait a second for the clicks to finish before pressing the next number. hosed up but true. a lot of phones had a little switch to toggle between touch tone and rotary style, maybe that switch got flipped and no one changed it?
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Nov 20, 2014 18:36
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also it's cool how you could "dial" a phone by hitting the on-hook button if you were fast
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:also it's cool how you could "dial" a phone by hitting the on-hook button if you were fast or call waiting where you could tap the hook to switch calls
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Nov 20, 2014 19:16
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don't ever phone janitor a call center b/c it's a nonstop barrage of wanting the phones to do some kind of crazy bullshit to make up for management's total lack of any actual business plan
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Nov 20, 2014 19:30
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you can make the phones do a lot of crazy bullshit
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yeah. i remember one time i ginned up a fake hold time in Avaya to create the impression that a caller was actually in a queue before dumping them off to voicemail. of course, that little side business never went anywhere, which goes back to my remark about "total lack of business plan" also, you will probably want to shoot yourself in the head if you ever have to deal with any "contact center" vendor. they all suck horribly and have the worst possible customer service and technical support. they can't even spin up their own poo poo correctly. this applies to both "on-premise" and  ""solutions""
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