I'm planning to start a series regarding things about how much the world has changed. It has changed so quickly that some of you might not even be aware of how things used to work. First up, home phones. They are not like cellphones at all. Not even like this old one. These were cool though. Indestructible. And you could play Snake. Now, I'm too young to remember party lines where multiple homes shared the same telephone line, but my home growing up had only one line for multiple phones (this was the most common situation). We had a phone in the kitchen, living room (this rotary phone is now part of the Savio theater prop collection), and my parents' bedroom. What this means is a call coming into the house would ring on all three phones. Two people might pick up the phone at the same time. Not only that, it meant that you had no guarantee of privacy, as someone could in theory be listening in from another room. Not ideal if you have a girlfriend and are trying to have a p...
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