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Those were the days when a phone was just a phone
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Mar 1, 2020
If you had the money, and you were lucky, the person you wanted to talk to would pick up the receiver and you could have a conversation.
If you wanted to send a textual message, you needed an enveloped, a stamp, and the services of a postman. Luckily, by the time the telephone came along, you could contact overseas correspondents by sending a telegram. The last telegram was sent in 2001, or so I've read.
(I'd like to see someone send a Fax on the phone in the picture 
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Those were the days when a phone was just a phone
Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Mar 1, 2020
Easy! 
Time travel!
The small box unit on the right side of the phone is a early "floppy disc" set up
Those were the days when a phone was just a phone
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 2, 2020
"Floppy disc" sounds like o e of my back vertebrae. 
Those were the days when a phone was just a phone
Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. Posted Mar 2, 2020
The first nuclear phone!
Insert you uranium disc in the reactor pod and you can call home for the next three millennia.
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Those were the days when a phone was just a phone
- 1: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Mar 1, 2020)
- 2: Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. (Mar 1, 2020)
- 3: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Mar 2, 2020)
- 4: Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking. (Mar 2, 2020)
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