I was reading a funny article today, about how the younger generations don't understand some of our expressions. This will make you feel old ...
Q: Why do we say "hang up" a phone?
A: Phones used to have two parts to them, a base and a receiver. In order to end a call, the receiver had to be placed on the base.
Q: Why do we say "dial" a phone?
A: To call someone on an old phone, you had to stick your finger in a rotating dial at number positions that would turn the dial for various lengths of time when released. You had to dial the entire number every time.
There were others, but these two related more to my generation (and older) than those others.
Then I found this ...
Introducing kids to rotary phones
How funny! Technology has changed a lot in the last twenty or thirty years!!
Now I'm off for some more guitar practise and then another early night to bed.
Nite all.
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