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Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)
submitted 8 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z's nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z's love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This seems like a dumb tiktok trend or some shit. It's hard to get by in this world without a cellphone

But I just wish anyone would still want to talk on the phone. I love chatting with friends for an hour or so on the phone but everyone hates it now. Quick random texts just feel so much less personal. Ah well

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

It's not clear these people wouldn't have a cellphone as well.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I still want to talk on the phone and I probably wouldn’t if it was like corded landline days when you were constrained to wherever the cord would reach. Cordless was freeing, and I’ll never go back!

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

I look back fondly on the moments of “where is the phone?!” Because someone took it to their room to have a private conversation but then left it there on accident.

Still happens I guess, but where everyone has their own phone (not one shared for the whole family) it’s less frantic and thus less hilarious to me.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There were cordless landlines for years. So you could go usually anywhere in the house or even into the yard a ways. But I can't think why anyone would want to use something like that when you have cell phones. Large, comfy form factor I suppose.

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Newer ones aren't that large, but why bother when you have a cellphone always with you anyway

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I swear, these article-writers just hear about a few quirky teenagers and immediately label it a viral trend that will sweep the entire world...

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

It doesn’t say anything about getting rid of their cell phone for one. The article says quite the opposite actually.

While Gen Zers definitely don’t need a landline — still relying on their cellphones for virtually everything — it’s the aesthetic of “2000s nostalgia” that makes the relic so attractive to them.