Eighty percent of people now own cell phones and the other 20 percent are standing next to eight people holding a cell phone.
Remember pay phones? Remember stuff that made you ask, “What is that?” on the receiver of the pay phone? Remember having to insert more money to continue the call? Remember being at the airport or mall and searching like mad for a pay phone that wasn’t in use?
AT&T announced this week that those days will be happy memories by the end of 2008. The company plans to end the pay phone business.
I will be first in line for a vintage phone to put with my 8-track player, phonograph, rotary phone, cassette tape, CB radio, typewriter and film camera.
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I am in the 20% bracket. Cells would be fine, if like e/thing else, folks didnt abuse them. NO ONE is as important as they seem to think they are. And when I see two kids OR adults walking down the street together…but yet not together (because one is on the phone) it’s very sad. Where has human interaction gone??? And why on earth do we need a law for folks to realize that driving and cell use do not go together? And now texting?? I thought the phone was invented for verbal communication. Sorry for the rant.
Some folks simply do not understand, moderation.
I remember tube radio & b/w tv , hand crank phone , home generated electricity &phone boxes