“Do You Remember When”: 50 Pics That Might Not Make Any Sense If You’re Too Young (New Pics)

I somehow remember my locker combo 27yrs later but it took me at least 3 to learn my husband's phone number.. .and I sometimes still question it.

Hardest gum to chew!

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It's also where we keep the restaurant menus, scotch tape and batteries. 🫣

Who just learned that Datsun became Nissan, and that they’re not mutually exclusive car brands? 🙋🏻‍♀️

I remember when we first got a phone that had a speakerphone function. That was groundbreaking.

You hang up. No YOU hang up. Ok, ok, on the count of 3 we'll both hang up...... one, twooooo

Back in the day, run to the phone when it rings. Nowadays, we run from it

You were living it up if you had the extra long cord.

This was our home phone in the mid-late 70s/ pretty-muc...342558.jpg

That was one of the more modern ones that had push buttons. I had that same phone, same color, but it was rotary. One of my proudest moments was when I won a 10th caller radio contest on it. If you're familiar with rotary phones and radio contests, you know what an achievement that is.

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Yeah but back then, they weren't constantly calling you about your extended car warranty.

The first phone I remember was a wooden box on the wall with a black speaker and earpiece hung on the left side. The right side was where the crank was to dial the operator. We were on a party line, and we were two rings and we cranked twice to reach an operator, who would then dial the number of the person you wanted to talk to and then connect you. The operators would also know if you were listening in on the party line and come on and say, who else is on this line? That kids, is how old I am.

And the Caller ID boxes that were separate from the phone when Caller ID became a feature! I still prefer an answering machine to voice mail, though.

"Is it her?" "Is it her?" "Please be her." "Hello?" (In the coolest voice ever). "Hi Nanny."

We still have a wall phone. It never gets lost.

I'd go back to this in a heartbeat and carry a secret cell for emergencies, instead of people thinking I'm at their beck and call 24 hours day...and then getting mad because I was busy doing something else and chose to ignore the phone.

Our first wall phone had a rotary dail.

And if it rang during dinner, every time it was MCI trying to sell you a long distance plan.

you also didn't have telemarketers and scam artists calling five times a day.

Never had one on the wall, but I still have two landline phones, one of which doesn't even have called display. So you could have been born yesterday in my house, and still know it!

OUR wall phone had a rotary dial. "Touch tone" hadn't been invented yet.

I remember everyone having their one rotary dial phone on its own table with the phone directory (Yellow Pages) right below it in the hallway. This is before the home having kitchen or bedroom phones (Extention phones as we called them back in the day).

I remember having a party line and having to give the operator the number you wanted to call.

And you put a extra long cord so you could walk around the house...

Growing up we had a party line. 🐴 could listen in on each others calls. Gossipers heaven

I remember when we had party lines. Sometimes the phone rang and we didn't answer because it was for the neighbors.

Yep. My sister had a black one and at home we had a beige one. My sis said black is beautiful and I said beige is better. This went on for years.

LAX has one of those in the Delta baggage area, but it's a nice stainless one. No one uses it.

We still have a phone attached to the wall

I remember standing at the phone calling my dad after he would get off work to talk to him about my day back when he'd moved out because of my birthing unit. Simpler times.

Had that exact phone in my first house.

Still have one; the landline is mainly for the benefit of elderly relatives who’d rather ring that than our mobiles. We actually use cordless phones but the wall phone is so loud it can be heard all over the house.

I'd always get my cord wrapped around the chair legs while I was kicking it up and resting my feet's on the table while my parents were out omg if they were home I would have been slaughtered like a cow lol but yeah I miss it something about a classic wall phone even the wireless I loved getting on the line and telling my brother or sister I've got two seconds to get off the dang phone...☝️😶‍🌫️🧐🤨

Ah, the joys of being unreachable when away from home and no one gave you grief

We all had one

I was 12 years old when we got one for the family farm. The Manitoba Phone truck came into the farm yard because some neighbor ladies were trying to get ahold of Mom to ask her if she could make fried chicken for a community pot luck. It turned out our old rotary phone had died on us.

And how many times my "brother" had to say i wasn't home at the time.

& then thanks to caller ID I never have to answer the phone ever again!

And you had to get the extra long cord. Otherwise, it wouldn't reach from the kitchen all the way into the living room.

I had an extra long handset cord so I could talk while sitting on my living room couch.

And then there's the Party Lines!

50 foot phone cord! Twisted and tangled down to 25! Yes I mean 50 feet between the base and the handset, anything on the floor in the living room would get swept up and dragged behind me.

AND IF YOUR PARENTS YELLIN AT YA NOT TO BE ON THERE FOREVER, THE PHONE CORD COULD BE A REMINDER, WRAPPED AROUND YOUR NECK!

My dad was pissed with my mom because she paid extra for a non-party phone line and he didn't see the point.