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Your first phone?

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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.

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    @jon-nyc said:

    Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.

    It was the same in the UK. You had to rent them from the Post Office who ran the service until it was privatised in the 1980s. We had a party line - shared with a neighbour

    I was only joking

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      Well yeah you lived in a 3rd world country.

      Actually we had party lines but they were mostly gone by the 60s.

      Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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        I remember the blackberry. Used to play brick breaker (or whatever it was called) a lot. LOL. Thought it was the coolest thing to get email on the phone.

        (now I realize maybe that was not such a good thing. LOL)

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