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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 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Me having just asked my dad to hang on to my grandma's old chord set so I can find someone to turn it into some sort of modern use decoration:

<_<

>_>

[–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe they should start making landline style phones that take a SIM card but otherwise look and function like the phones of yesteryear.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They look cool, also i like the old circular dial telephones with the bells on top. Feels like being called out of the matrix in any time.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can see limited use for a land line if you changed your cell number and then only gave out the land line number to companies. There are probably cheaper ways utilizing Google voice numbers of protecting the privacy of your main cell number though.

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Or dual SIM phones.

[–] AzureRT@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Bring back 2010-2019 smartphones, especially the ones with physical home buttons and notification LEDs

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

land line quality far superior to cell phones though

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

are you really caring about the timbre reproduction on your weed dealer calling to say why he's three hours late

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Imagine contacting your dealer through an open line or text these days instead of a private messaging app.

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[–] cebef@futurology.today -5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

God I fucking hate zoomers. They would literally eat shit if gives them popularity on social media. It's genuinely frightening to believe the future of humanity lies in their hands.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Well, someone raised them to be like this...

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Happens with every generation.

The difference is that humans want to feel some outreach to others around them, and now there's a trap based on that. Just don't be a unit of that popularity. As in "don't doomscroll and like\dislike".

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

There is no future for humanity.

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