Young Woman Sees Landline Phone for First Time in TikTok
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Will their head explode if they find out that string phones work? pic.twitter.com/WQQC28vrp0— JanTRO (@DaJanTRO) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @DaJanTRO "Oh my gosh!" the child exclaims when she can hear the other girl's voice come in through the receiver. "It actually works!" she continues. The child then appears to attempt to hang the phone up but initially looks a little lost until the older girl instructs her to "just push it down" referring to the hook switch on the device's receiver cradle.Article continues below advertisement Nah we old, it just fuckin hit me (pardon my french) but we old.— Marshal Moe (@marshal_moe) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @marshal_moe "What! It ended!" the older girl exclaimed, seeing the call disconnect from her smartphone interface. According to National Interest about 40% of US Households still have a landline phone (as of this writing, in September, 2022). And that figure is steadily decreasing with time.Article continues below advertisement They needed this bad boy right here: pic.twitter.com/Do4CP6GmX9— Dije, lo que dije. (@WitYoLo_okinAss) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @WitYoLo_okinAss This is a marked decrease from 2004, where an estimated 90% of American households had a landline telephone connection, Statista states: "As smartphones have become a constant companion for most people in the United States, landline phones are rapidly losing their relevance. In 2004, more than 90 percent of U.S. adults lived in households that had an operational landline phone - now it’s less than 40 percent."Article continues below advertisement I saw a video of kids reacting to the original game boy and most of them couldn’t figure it out, some are tapping the screen, and then one kid plays for a bit then sighs and says “I feel bad for people who lived in the past”— Jennifer Harrison⁷ (@GeneticJen) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @GeneticJen Believe it or not, the CDC has been tracking phone ownership since 2004 as "a by-product of its biannual National Health Interview Survey."Article continues below advertisement Basically the same thing happened to my kids earlier this year when we passed a public phone. They wanted to know where the dial button was and how to end the call. ?— faranaaz (@faranaaz) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @faranaaz Twitter users who saw the TikTok were tickled pink by the response of the youngsters who encountered the phone, sharing photos of rotary models. Others remarked that their own children were also equally nonplussed when they came across public payphones, wondering what they were used for or why anyone would ever need to place a call on such an unwieldy device.Article continues below advertisement Hold up.
Why are they all acting like there isn't a landline in every house.
In the States do you not need a landline to get broadband in the house?— The Human Rights Council of Twitta (@YahyaYayoHassan) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @YahyaYayoHassan And then others mentioned that even if landline phones seem like some foreign piece of ancient technology, many homes still have ethernet ports for high-speed internet, so it's not like hardwired communications technology is completely foreign to them.AdvertisementMore from Distractify Mom Says Son Came Home “Starving” on First Day of School Because Other Student Ate His Lunch TikToker Under Fire for Criticizing People Who Are In Bed During the Day Subway Employees Find Perfect Way to Deal with Rude Karen in Viral TikTok Latest Trending News and UpdatesAdvertisementABOUT DistractifyAbout UsPrivacy PolicyTerms of UseDMCASitemapCONNECT with DistractifyLink to Facebook Link to TwitterLink to InstagramContact us by Email Copyright 2022 Distractify. Distractify is a registered trademark. All Rights Reserved. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.
Kids Encounter Ancient Landline Phone for the First Time in Viral TikTok
By Mustafa GatollariSep. 7 2022, Published 3:22 p.m. ET TikTok user @lmhurd1 went viral on the popular social media platform after posting a video of a young woman encountering a landline phone for the first time. The post has throngs of people online stating that they now "feel old" after watching the clip. The girl says in the clip, "Yo! It's actually working!" genuinely surprised that the phone is operational.Article continues below advertisement A young child is shown also in the room looking on with a smile. The camera then pans back to the person holding the landline phone. Someone behind the camera responds, "Yeah, it's hooked...it's a, it's a phone." "Can I do your number?" The young girl asks, hanging the receiver up. "It will ring, it will call me," the off-camera person says. "Really? Hold up," the young woman says. "Yeah, it's a real phone." She begins pressing buttons on the phone, presumably the phone number of whoever is recording the video. After she's finished dialing the number she freezes, "What do I do now?"Article continues below advertisement I can’t describe how ancient this makes me feel. pic.twitter.com/a1IvELjOFY— Brianna (@shes_the_maNN1) September 6, 2022 Source: Twitter @shes_the_maNN1 The person off camera responds, "Put it up to your ear." The young woman excitedly tells the woman holding the camera, "Answer, answer!" The camera then transitions to the child from earlier in the video on a different landline phone as the other girl punches in numbers on that device.Article continues below advertisement I am going with this answer lol becuz they sell phones like this to hook to cellphones so it can look like you're talking from a landline lol— Chicagoan West Sider by birth (@NayelySpring910) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @nayelySpring910 The child, too, excitedly says, "Answer answer!" as the older girl looks at a cell phone, seemingly in shock that the phone call went through. "It's answering! That's cool!" she says with a smile. The older girl walks away as the child repeatedly instructs her to answer while holding the receiver up to her ear.Article continues below advertisement You are 100% right with that. Like what do they think how modern phones work? Extraterrestrial magic? No kids. Signals are sent from A to B. It's as simple as that.Will their head explode if they find out that string phones work? pic.twitter.com/WQQC28vrp0— JanTRO (@DaJanTRO) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @DaJanTRO "Oh my gosh!" the child exclaims when she can hear the other girl's voice come in through the receiver. "It actually works!" she continues. The child then appears to attempt to hang the phone up but initially looks a little lost until the older girl instructs her to "just push it down" referring to the hook switch on the device's receiver cradle.Article continues below advertisement Nah we old, it just fuckin hit me (pardon my french) but we old.— Marshal Moe (@marshal_moe) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @marshal_moe "What! It ended!" the older girl exclaimed, seeing the call disconnect from her smartphone interface. According to National Interest about 40% of US Households still have a landline phone (as of this writing, in September, 2022). And that figure is steadily decreasing with time.Article continues below advertisement They needed this bad boy right here: pic.twitter.com/Do4CP6GmX9— Dije, lo que dije. (@WitYoLo_okinAss) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @WitYoLo_okinAss This is a marked decrease from 2004, where an estimated 90% of American households had a landline telephone connection, Statista states: "As smartphones have become a constant companion for most people in the United States, landline phones are rapidly losing their relevance. In 2004, more than 90 percent of U.S. adults lived in households that had an operational landline phone - now it’s less than 40 percent."Article continues below advertisement I saw a video of kids reacting to the original game boy and most of them couldn’t figure it out, some are tapping the screen, and then one kid plays for a bit then sighs and says “I feel bad for people who lived in the past”— Jennifer Harrison⁷ (@GeneticJen) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @GeneticJen Believe it or not, the CDC has been tracking phone ownership since 2004 as "a by-product of its biannual National Health Interview Survey."Article continues below advertisement Basically the same thing happened to my kids earlier this year when we passed a public phone. They wanted to know where the dial button was and how to end the call. ?— faranaaz (@faranaaz) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @faranaaz Twitter users who saw the TikTok were tickled pink by the response of the youngsters who encountered the phone, sharing photos of rotary models. Others remarked that their own children were also equally nonplussed when they came across public payphones, wondering what they were used for or why anyone would ever need to place a call on such an unwieldy device.Article continues below advertisement Hold up.
Why are they all acting like there isn't a landline in every house.
In the States do you not need a landline to get broadband in the house?— The Human Rights Council of Twitta (@YahyaYayoHassan) September 7, 2022 Source: Twitter @YahyaYayoHassan And then others mentioned that even if landline phones seem like some foreign piece of ancient technology, many homes still have ethernet ports for high-speed internet, so it's not like hardwired communications technology is completely foreign to them.AdvertisementMore from Distractify Mom Says Son Came Home “Starving” on First Day of School Because Other Student Ate His Lunch TikToker Under Fire for Criticizing People Who Are In Bed During the Day Subway Employees Find Perfect Way to Deal with Rude Karen in Viral TikTok Latest Trending News and UpdatesAdvertisementABOUT DistractifyAbout UsPrivacy PolicyTerms of UseDMCASitemapCONNECT with DistractifyLink to Facebook Link to TwitterLink to InstagramContact us by Email Copyright 2022 Distractify. Distractify is a registered trademark. All Rights Reserved. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.