I'm a teenager and use a rotary phone daily, I love watching my friends try to use one when they come over, then after 5 minutes I show them how to use it, they all know by now though, its so funny watching kids try to use one, I don't like cell phones, I'm a teenager and use a typewriter at school, its also from 1915, its an L.C. Smith, aka a Smith Corona.
Also it's no a VoIP, it's an actual telephone line, not an emulation like most people have if they have an old landline phone, it's a real analog telephone line, almost no one has an actual phone line anymore, if they have any landline it's usually a VoIP emulation of one, mine is a real one.
@@Ignore_This_Account. Good for you. AT&T came out ripped out our copper wire in 2021. We are a house divided. AT&T for the landline and Verizon for cellular service. Both companies know of our situation and desperately try to get us to merge our service with either company.
@@Ignore_This_Account. Offices and schools and other places of business of course still use landlines, but 'tis crazy that very few people have personal or home landlines. My aunt still has landlines at her house. We have a phone in like every room.
yep quite funny.. because its built in now, they have no clue what the banana laying on top is for.. but shouldnt that be your first question? Where do i talk and listen to the other person? Wait, im gonna do what to the banana? Talk to it? That has got to be a joke, right? Nope that was the 90s..
My dad still has a phone like this in the garage and it still works. We've grown up with this type of phone. My parents even had one in the kitchen years ago. Everybody knew how to use them.
Those old Western Electric phones were made to last several lifetimes. I have some from the 30's that still work flawlessly. I just wish $1500 cell phones would last that long. Those old phones were made well because the Bell System owned all the phones and wanted a bulletproof product so they didn't have to come out and repair/replace them.
There was a rotary phone in my house until the early 1990s when the local phone company switched to touch tone. This is around the first time I got a computer with a modem to use AOL, Compuserve, other BBS services and later the internet via a local ISP.
The saddest thing to me is not just that they don’t know how to do it. But that when I was their age I knew how to use outdated tech that was MUCH older. The curiosity to learn about things that came before them is gone in this younger generation. Logic and problem solving seems to be gone too. Literally none of them wondered what the finger stop was for and they all just put their fingers in random holes. Very depressing
relax man. these are probably cherrypicked examples. im only 16 and ive always known about rotary phones and how to operate one, im sure that theres many more my age who are the same.
@FrogLover420 Same. It isn't like someone sees one every day, or that it is an absolute necessity to use them. It seems quite simple but only through intrigue and intrest in vintage technology. I do not in most cases, think it is necessary to learn about them as they are a rare part of a very rarely used aspect of life for modern Americans. It is not a matter of laughable ignorance, but rather an unnecessary skill not taught for that reason, that such technology is unlikely enough to be encountered in service.
I'm only 32. When I was in my early twenties and still living at my parent's house, I acquired a rotary dial phone. Knew what it was and how to use it right away! I used it for a few years until Qwest (now Centurylink) shut down the SxS equipment here in Southern Idaho. That was a sad day.
I'm a part of Gen X so I grew up with these phones as a young kid. In fact, we had several rotary phones throughout our home. Watching this makes me feel so old. I can't believe so many of them had absolutely no clue how to use them. 😅
Remember when we were SO happy when push buttons first came out on these same style phones? "Technology!" Lol. We no longer had to dial ALL the way around to call the operator to ask her to do an "emergency break through" for a number that was staying busy too long. Lolol
I'm a Boomer. We had rotary phones and a party line. Do you remember what that is? C'mon now, don't cheat and look it up! Recently I bought a house built in 1945 complete with antique furnishings. I bought old analog phones that have been converted to digital. One of them is a rotary!
@@jazzcatt I so remember party line. If we dialed, I think it was 411 (before that was "information") and waited until the "wrong number" recording and the loud beep finished, we could talk REALLY loud and hear other people answering us. Remember "Time?" "The correct time of day is ..." Lol.
I'm Gen X too, and my phones growing up were also rotary. I'm not at all surprised by what these kids are fumbling with, and though I know this video is highlights in hilarity, it did kinda get to me that none of them could get it right. Did they even listen for a dial tone first?
Late Gen X here too, I still have a rotary phone in my home office and another in my hallway, (I have connected them to my work and personal cellphones with special Bluetooth connectors) visitors love hearing the bells ring and watching me call them using the dial phones :)
I'm a teenager and I have a rotary phone, it has a bad cord but I do know how to use one, I love retro tech lol, I have known how to use one since I was 9 lol.
Also I fixed it and now use it like all the time, I do have a cell phone but almost never use it for anything but looking things up when I'm out of the house and/or the mobile hotspot my parents pay extra for.
Back in the day when you had to memorize all your contact numbers. I'm in my late 30s and have now allowed to let tech take over and can't remember numbers by heart as I did when I was younger. I still have my personal phone book though.
@@thatbooknerdoverthere7899 We sure did. I definitely remembered that agendas too. But I use to remember alot of personal numbers. I still have my high School agendas. lol.
And yet, the phone numbers you knew and dialed a ton when you were a kid are engraved into your memory. Even if you don't remember who's number it was.
Im 24 at the time of writing this I love these old phones, i lived with my grandparents as a child and they had a few of these around the house. I own one myself just cause there so cool. Unfortunately a lot of modern phone companies no longer support pulse dial anymore so you need an adapter to work them.
how do these kids not know how to use it?? i remember seeing one of these when i was like 7 and i knew just from looking at it that you were supposed to move the number hole to the metal stopper, isn’t it obvious??
The girl says, “What am I dumb”? No, you’re not dumb, but if you went back in time and couldn’t dial a rotary phone in front of your teenage mother, she’d say, “What are you, a spaz”?
The sad thing is these kids would know how to use this phone if they ever watched an older movie. One might think they'd occasionally watch an older movie or TV show just to learn what the world was like before they were born.
Not many of those old movies/TV shows focus on the phone itself when someone is making a call. The only thing they may catch is that you have to pick up the receiver before dialing.
i blame school history lessons, cos school teacher,s are obcessed with teaching about the iron age or the stone age or roman times or tudor times, in other words things that happend 100s if not 1000s of year.s ago, that no-one is interested in, intead of teaching kids about things within living memory or things about the way their grandparents or great grandparents lived & worked or survived & items they used,
I still have and use my all original unrestored Western Electric #302 from 1946 that still works perfectly. They really knew how to build them back then. Of course, the phone company owned the phone and had to send someone out to the house to fix it if it misbehaved. So it makes good business sense to build a phone that is insanely dependable.
To be fair, do you know everything THEY know? Why should they automatically know about something that hasn't existed for fifty years? You can't expect THEM to know all about YOU, when there's things they know how to do that you don't?🤷
@@afonphoenix16 Why should some one that does not know me know all about me. Rotary phones are so simple. All these kids is ask their parents to show them how to use a rotary phone. We were taught the basics in school. School teachers should be letting these kids on how to use a phone as well.
@@spunkyspice4777 You were taught the basics because back then it WAS a basic. Rotary phones are basically obsolete. Knowing how to use one is hardly pressing educational material.🤷
To be fair as someone born in 56 I would challenge anyone including my parents who never knew a world without electricity, to bridle and hitch a horse to a wagon yet when my grandparents and great grandparents were young that was second nature so don't judge young people to harshly folks some day their kids won't understand today's tech eathier.
Omg. Hilarious. Sad thing is when I was there age my dad said figure it out. It’s not rocket science. My grandfather would have just smacked and said what are you stupid? Hahahahahaha
This is funny as I am 50, but in the defense of the kids they likely know what tcp/ip is and might even be able to say the layers. In the 80’s, very very few would have a clue.
i never knew how to dial it. but my late grandma still uses it during those days, early in the 90's i think. Whenever we came, my brothers and i used to play with the dials. we get really amused when the dials return to its original position.
My 6-year-old twins know how to use a rotary phone, why can't teenagers figure it out? Please let us see their reaction, once they are told what to do with it! I'm 50, and yes this amused me. Thanks, but please clue them in, not just embarrass them! For anyone interested, if you no longer have a landline, or VOIP doesn't support your old telephone, you can get an Xlink device to pair a vintage phone with your cell phone, and use that rather than the smart phone, btw. Best modern invention I've come across this year!
I have five phone jacks in my home, and each is connected to a different style/era antique rotary phone. They range in age from year 1927 to the early 1960s. I live in a rural area, and cell service is spotty at best. I can always depend upon my land-line phones to work during an emergency.
"wow, look at these stupid kids! They can't use a rotary phone!" Man, it's almost like as technology advances, older things slowly become useless and obsolete.
These kids would be totally dumbfounded having a 'party line' described to them. 'Before fiber optics was introduced, there were far fewer lines available, so most people had to share the same lines. A private line, if any were available in your phone system, were really expensive.' We moved into the house I grew up in in August, 1969 and were on a party line for a brief time. We had a touchtone, but my Aunt Nina had a rotary phone from the 50s. The dial was really hard to turn.
I'm a 103 years old we didn't use telephones when we were kids we had this thing called paper mail something you kids wouldn't understand with your fancy party phones
@@GjHj-mi3ov What's a 'Party Phone"? We had a PARTY LINE it's far from 'fancy'. That's when several different telephone customers share the same line. You never had a phone? I can remember when some people didn't have one because it was too expensive. The way you've worded your post makes it sound like they hadn't yet been invented. There was no such a thing as a 'Celphone' or the internet when I was growing up, either. I used our public library a lot when I was growing up. That was our 'internet'. And yes, I used a lot of paper and pen to do my school work.
OMG this is hilarious!!!! I remembered dialing seven digit...then ten digit even with my nails caught up with speed Don't forget to carry (dail) the number one
I guess they think of them like office telephones(like the ones kids use to call home), because with them, you don't have to pick up the receiver because they have a speaker phone functionality, but if you want to have a private phone call, you do. Obviously that one is older and/or a home phone, so, you do have to pick up the receiver.
I am 32, I like to think I’m not old but I guess I’m wrong lol. I mean when I read the title I assumed it was going to be first graders or something. Not almost adults.
The thing I dont get is that all of us had enough logic to know how to use the rotary phone in the 60's and 70's. Why is hatd for them to process? I did crack up at them learning on this video. Lol 😅
Quite appalling that none of them seemed to have the slightest idea how to deal with the unfamiliar. No process, no studying of it, no looking to try to deduce function. Just fiddled with it aimlessly.
we had a table model phone in house when i was born, a few months layer i wood goto the phone and play with the dials and make all kinds of calls, shortly after that they made it a wall mount in the kitchen
This raises a very important point I've been saying for years. You have people who go on about Why don't they build Apollo Rockets to go back to the Moon? Why don't they fly Concorde anymore? How did they build the Pyramids? Humans don't build up more knowledge as time goes on, they adapt to what is present at any time. Stop using something and that knowledge is not passed on plus the items are no longer made. Using a rotary phone is simple to those of us old enough who have used them in the past. There is a lot of knowledge we've been taught and once used that we've never passed it on to anyone else so it dies with us. Go back in time further and there are items hundreds, even thousands of years ago that use to have a purpose to people back then, but like these young people trying to fathom out how to use a phone, absolutely no one alive to day knows how to use knowledge from back then.
its kind of fair enough they don't know though. If you have not used one, or seen one ,or been taught how to use one, you can understand that. But the gen Z will out do us all the time with current tech!!!! So glad I have a teen to helps me with current tech lol, even though I have diplomas in computing and computer concepts and can build one. that was back in 2000, I taught my daughter everything I knew when she was a toddler haha, she out did me in computing at age 7, sigh. My daughter and I were out today at an antiques store and they had some old rotary phones. I showed her how to use one. Shouldn't really tease about tech you have no idea how to use. Fun part of history, and funny to watch for us older gen x/y etc
I have been retired for about a year now. My mother had a landline phone until she died (March 2021) at the age of 89. It was not a pulse phone but tone. Of course we did have pulse type phones a long time ago. She had one cordless phone (not cellphone) and one push button phone with the push buttons in the handset. Also, I don't think bad of the younger generation. This was before they're time. And I understand that this video was just for fun. .
god im 15 and ik how to use it i was raised in a way that ik all this stuff like my first game console was a sega genesis and we had one of these in the house that was alway in service i still have it too my first type of portable media was a walkman and 5 cassettes
You know how to use a rotary phone but don't know how to use a full stop (period) at the end of a sentence and start a sentence with an uppercase letter?
I've never used a damn rotary phone in my life but I am well familiar with how it works, put finger on number indicated and rotate all the way clockwise till your finger hits the stopper. It's so simple, where is their critical thinking skills
I am 1000% sure this is filmed with people from PA from the way camera man said phone/ the girl said Jawn … only thing else that would have set it even more is if one of them called it a hoagie 😂👏🏼👏🏼
I want to give them a pass for never having used one before, but it's just so intuitive that I can't comprehend how they can't figure it out. Surely a few kids figured it out and just didn't make the cut for the video? I hope?
Yes I did get one student who did get it correct after a very long time of trial and error. Eventually we showed each student how it was done after the had enough
@@sterlingtv19 Well, to be fair, I remember when my parents got their first cell phone, and I couldn't comprehend dialing a number without hearing a tone. It would be interesting to see kids react to early cell phones and see who can get the highest score on snake!
Let's also see if they can figure out how activate its advanced, built-in features such as Do Not Disturb, aka (as my mom used to say) "Just take the d*mned thing off the hook!" Or how to use its more advanced features, such as how to get your message through on a collect call without anyone paying for it. "Hello?" "This is the operator. You have a collect call from Bob Wehadababyitsaboy, will you accept the charges?" "No, thank you." "Who was that, honey?" "It was Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy." 😄
That explains why the Moon has not been visited again since MCMLXXII! This generation can not add 2 and 2 without a cellphone.They also do not understand the year I wrote.🎉😂
omg the closest thing they can think of to how to operate it is a combination lock. They’re turning the dial that way because they think it works like a combination lock.
most kid of the 80s and 90s could have done the very same to their boomer parents asking to pick up a game controller and play. Same could do many 2000s kids asking their parents to use a touch screen device. The difference? these students are asked to try a completely obsolete object in 2022. Not really the same thing if you reverse roles, isn't it? i do happen to know how to use a rotary phone just because grandparents still had one in the late 90s/early 2000s. So what if those kids had not the chance? wtf
kids these days can only read digital clocks. back in my day we used to have analog clocks. kids these days can only read mechanical clocks. back in my day we used to have water clocks. kids these days can only read water clocks. back in my day we used to have sundials. technology evolves
No need to control a game. Just take the game out of the box set to the playing pieces and read the directions. Why would the parents boom anything? Well my father used to discard old TV picture tubes which caused a boom noise from the vacuum caused when the picture tube was broke from breaking the neck of that.
I was born in 1981 this is so laughable 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pick up the receiver spin the number to the bar each time I garontee you will get someone on the otherside
Ah, the ones trying to sort of finger walk the dial continuously to each number. Obviously wrong but I can see where they're coming from. It's weird, I can't remember ever actually using one to make a call, though we did have one. Only time I ever used one was at an exhibit showing how the old analogue phone exchanges worked.
They cut all that footage out so their older viewers can still feel smug. It's like every single TV show that interviews random pedestrians. They show only the dumb ones because that's the most entertaining.
Guess what else kids? There used to be pay phones scattered all over the America!! For ten cents you could call someone. Well, we could call someone. You know, because we knew how!! 😎💯🔥✌👉💣👈✌🔥💯😎
@@jazzcatt being a jazzcatt you must have grown up in the roaring 20's. Did you hang out at a speakeasy, or did you get your booze from a stash house? Ha Ha!!
I'm one of the rare Gen Z types who does know how to use a rotary phone, but that's mainly because I love old tech so much XDDDD. Its so simple once you understand it, but seeing these kids fail hilariously is just....well, hilarious XD
I just walked the kids in and asked them to make a call. They had never seen anything like it before. Wasn't staged. Their world is push buttons. You saw what happened as they tried
I'm working on a Panic Room that has one of these as one of the many locks required to "Escape" from it. Now I'm wondering how many Gen Z and Alphas will get stuck there. 😂
It is sad. Kids these days know nothing about old tech, no more cursive writing taught, in school either. My niece had no clue how to fill an envelope for her Thank You notes. No clue about Geography, all they see is their phones and gaming as the most important thing in their lives. We are in trouble…
Mark, I had all the cord hook-ups and adapters still on it, but I didn't plug it into anything. The few who got it right (not in the video) I talked too them from my camera position
Some phone systems (As in like an office phone system) will still work with pulse dialing on their analog extensions. In theory you could connect the phone to a phone system and use it to call internal / external numbers. I have done this before.
I'm a teenager and use a rotary phone daily, I love watching my friends try to use one when they come over, then after 5 minutes I show them how to use it, they all know by now though, its so funny watching kids try to use one, I don't like cell phones, I'm a teenager and use a typewriter at school, its also from 1915, its an L.C. Smith, aka a Smith Corona.
Yeah I know I'm kinda weird.
Also it's no a VoIP, it's an actual telephone line, not an emulation like most people have if they have an old landline phone, it's a real analog telephone line, almost no one has an actual phone line anymore, if they have any landline it's usually a VoIP emulation of one, mine is a real one.
@@Ignore_This_Account. Good for you. AT&T came out ripped out our copper wire in 2021. We are a house divided. AT&T for the landline and Verizon for cellular service. Both companies know of our situation and desperately try to get us to merge our service with either company.
@@Ignore_This_Account. Offices and schools and other places of business of course still use landlines, but 'tis crazy that very few people have personal or home landlines. My aunt still has landlines at her house. We have a phone in like every room.
Your parents taught you well.
The biggest thing that I'm blown away about is hardly any of them even pick up the receiver!!
yep quite funny.. because its built in now, they have no clue what the banana laying on top is for.. but shouldnt that be your first question? Where do i talk and listen to the other person? Wait, im gonna do what to the banana? Talk to it? That has got to be a joke, right? Nope that was the 90s..
It is actually called the handset. The receiver only makes up one part of the handset. 😜
They don’t even know what a dial tone is!
Think about it there treating it like a cell phone the green button on the cell when you click it is like picking up phone after you dial
My dad still has a phone like this in the garage and it still works. We've grown up with this type of phone. My parents even had one in the kitchen years ago. Everybody knew how to use them.
Those old Western Electric phones were made to last several lifetimes. I have some from the 30's that still work flawlessly. I just wish $1500 cell phones would last that long. Those old phones were made well because the Bell System owned all the phones and wanted a bulletproof product so they didn't have to come out and repair/replace them.
There was a rotary phone in my house until the early 1990s when the local phone company switched to touch tone. This is around the first time I got a computer with a modem to use AOL, Compuserve, other BBS services and later the internet via a local ISP.
BEEE-BOOOOO-DOO-LUU-DOO-LUU
The saddest thing to me is not just that they don’t know how to do it. But that when I was their age I knew how to use outdated tech that was MUCH older. The curiosity to learn about things that came before them is gone in this younger generation. Logic and problem solving seems to be gone too. Literally none of them wondered what the finger stop was for and they all just put their fingers in random holes. Very depressing
relax man. these are probably cherrypicked examples. im only 16 and ive always known about rotary phones and how to operate one, im sure that theres many more my age who are the same.
@@froglover4203 fr bro this dude trippin lol
Of course you knew how to use 'much more outdated tech' it was still all analogue.
@FrogLover420 Same. It isn't like someone sees one every day, or that it is an absolute necessity to use them. It seems quite simple but only through intrigue and intrest in vintage technology. I do not in most cases, think it is necessary to learn about them as they are a rare part of a very rarely used aspect of life for modern Americans. It is not a matter of laughable ignorance, but rather an unnecessary skill not taught for that reason, that such technology is unlikely enough to be encountered in service.
Nothing sad about this. It's freaking HILARIOUS!
so time travel isnt possible for alot of reasons. This might be another one i didnt consider.
I'm only 32. When I was in my early twenties and still living at my parent's house, I acquired a rotary dial phone. Knew what it was and how to use it right away! I used it for a few years until Qwest (now Centurylink) shut down the SxS equipment here in Southern Idaho. That was a sad day.
I'm a part of Gen X so I grew up with these phones as a young kid. In fact, we had several rotary phones throughout our home. Watching this makes me feel so old. I can't believe so many of them had absolutely no clue how to use them. 😅
Remember when we were SO happy when push buttons first came out on these same style phones? "Technology!" Lol.
We no longer had to dial ALL the way around to call the operator to ask her to do an "emergency break through" for a number that was staying busy too long. Lolol
I'm a Boomer. We had rotary phones and a party line. Do you remember what that is? C'mon now, don't cheat and look it up!
Recently I bought a house built in 1945 complete with antique furnishings. I bought old analog phones that have been converted to digital. One of them is a rotary!
@@jazzcatt I so remember party line. If we dialed, I think it was 411 (before that was "information") and waited until the "wrong number" recording and the loud beep finished, we could talk REALLY loud and hear other people answering us.
Remember "Time?" "The correct time of day is ..." Lol.
I'm Gen X too, and my phones growing up were also rotary. I'm not at all surprised by what these kids are fumbling with, and though I know this video is highlights in hilarity, it did kinda get to me that none of them could get it right. Did they even listen for a dial tone first?
Late Gen X here too, I still have a rotary phone in my home office and another in my hallway, (I have connected them to my work and personal cellphones with special Bluetooth connectors) visitors love hearing the bells ring and watching me call them using the dial phones :)
I'm a teenager and I have a rotary phone, it has a bad cord but I do know how to use one, I love retro tech lol, I have known how to use one since I was 9 lol.
Also I fixed it and now use it like all the time, I do have a cell phone but almost never use it for anything but looking things up when I'm out of the house and/or the mobile hotspot my parents pay extra for.
Back in the day when you had to memorize all your contact numbers. I'm in my late 30s and have now allowed to let tech take over and can't remember numbers by heart as I did when I was younger. I still have my personal phone book though.
Didn't we have paper and pencils in the 90s? You could always carry a small agenda with all the numbers with you at all times 😂😂
@@thatbooknerdoverthere7899 We sure did. I definitely remembered that agendas too. But I use to remember alot of personal numbers. I still have my high School agendas. lol.
I can remember some numbers. But not all. That is why I have my nose called numbers near my phone. Even so I still dial the wrong number sometimes.
And yet, the phone numbers you knew and dialed a ton when you were a kid are engraved into your memory. Even if you don't remember who's number it was.
True back from today I have some memorized but, I do keep a list of numbers by my phone. Sometimes I still dial a wrong number.
Im 24 at the time of writing this I love these old phones, i lived with my grandparents as a child and they had a few of these around the house. I own one myself just cause there so cool. Unfortunately a lot of modern phone companies no longer support pulse dial anymore so you need an adapter to work them.
how do these kids not know how to use it?? i remember seeing one of these when i was like 7 and i knew just from looking at it that you were supposed to move the number hole to the metal stopper, isn’t it obvious??
I think they’re doing it in purpose
it’s obsolete technology anyway. stop bitching and moaning.
The girl says, “What am I dumb”? No, you’re not dumb, but if you went back in time and couldn’t dial a rotary phone in front of your teenage mother, she’d say, “What are you, a spaz”?
The sad thing is these kids would know how to use this phone if they ever watched an older movie. One might think they'd occasionally watch an older movie or TV show just to learn what the world was like before they were born.
Not many of those old movies/TV shows focus on the phone itself when someone is making a call. The only thing they may catch is that you have to pick up the receiver before dialing.
i blame school history lessons, cos school teacher,s are obcessed with teaching about the iron age or the stone age or roman times or tudor times, in other words things that happend 100s if not 1000s of year.s ago, that no-one is interested in, intead of teaching kids about things within living memory or things about the way their grandparents or great grandparents lived & worked or survived & items they used,
I still have and use my all original unrestored Western Electric #302 from 1946 that still works perfectly. They really knew how to build them back then. Of course, the phone company owned the phone and had to send someone out to the house to fix it if it misbehaved. So it makes good business sense to build a phone that is insanely dependable.
You have to pick up the phone and hear the dial tone before dialing lol
I would love to hear these sheltered kids answer the question. “What is a party line?” Where they should know.
To be fair, do you know everything THEY know? Why should they automatically know about something that hasn't existed for fifty years? You can't expect THEM to know all about YOU, when there's things they know how to do that you don't?🤷
@@afonphoenix16 Why should some one that does not know me know all about me. Rotary phones are so simple. All these kids is ask their parents to show them how to use a rotary phone. We were taught the basics in school. School teachers should be letting these kids on how to use a phone as well.
@@spunkyspice4777 You were taught the basics because back then it WAS a basic. Rotary phones are basically obsolete. Knowing how to use one is hardly pressing educational material.🤷
@@afonphoenix16 Should not be. Mine is reliable and the iPhone is great for listening to music.
@@afonphoenix16Cell phones require electricity
I had a great time laughing! 😂 Sorry kids, you all fail🤣
You don't know what an IP is.
To be fair as someone born in 56 I would challenge anyone including my parents who never knew a world without electricity, to bridle and hitch a horse to a wagon yet when my grandparents and great grandparents were young that was second nature so don't judge young people to harshly folks some day their kids won't understand today's tech eathier.
"oh there's loads of holes here, one for each number, so I assume I just ignore them and turn the dial by gripping it"
Omg. Hilarious.
Sad thing is when I was there age my dad said figure it out. It’s not rocket science.
My grandfather would have just smacked and said what are you stupid? Hahahahahaha
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And your grandpa was an asshole.
Being born in 1970, I grew up using these rotary phones. Seeing the millennials try and use this type of phone is Priceless😂
You do know that the youngest millennial is 27, right? These kids are all gen Z.
The oldest milennials are 44.
This is funny as I am 50, but in the defense of the kids they likely know what tcp/ip is and might even be able to say the layers. In the 80’s, very very few would have a clue.
What's tcp/ip? 😂
Lol no they don't. Computer literacy is going down. They know how to use smartphones but that's about it.
@@Efebur We actually do know what that is.
i find a rotary phone is much easyer & quicker for dialing a number, i use a modern mobile phone, but also use a gpo rotary dial phone at home
i never knew how to dial it. but my late grandma still uses it during those days, early in the 90's i think. Whenever we came, my brothers and i used to play with the dials. we get really amused when the dials return to its original position.
They always say "that's before my time". I know Mozart, also before my time.
My 6-year-old twins know how to use a rotary phone, why can't teenagers figure it out? Please let us see their reaction, once they are told what to do with it!
I'm 50, and yes this amused me. Thanks, but please clue them in, not just embarrass them!
For anyone interested, if you no longer have a landline, or VOIP doesn't support your old telephone, you can get an Xlink device to pair a vintage phone with your cell phone, and use that rather than the smart phone, btw. Best modern invention I've come across this year!
You can also tap the headset button in sequence like Morse code.
tap 5 times = 5
and so on...
Yep, I used to do it that way back in the day also (70’s, 80’s). Either way it’s just about making the pulses…
same here!
I have five phone jacks in my home, and each is connected to a different style/era antique rotary phone. They range in age from year 1927 to the early 1960s. I live in a rural area, and cell service is spotty at best. I can always depend upon my land-line phones to work during an emergency.
"wow, look at these stupid kids! They can't use a rotary phone!"
Man, it's almost like as technology advances, older things slowly become useless and obsolete.
These kids would be totally dumbfounded having a 'party line' described to them. 'Before fiber optics was introduced, there were far fewer lines available, so most people had to share the same lines. A private line, if any were available in your phone system, were really expensive.' We moved into the house I grew up in in August, 1969 and were on a party line for a brief time.
We had a touchtone, but my Aunt Nina had a rotary phone from the 50s. The dial was really hard to turn.
I'm a 103 years old we didn't use telephones when we were kids we had this thing called paper mail something you kids wouldn't understand with your fancy party phones
@@GjHj-mi3ov What's a 'Party Phone"? We had a PARTY LINE it's far from 'fancy'. That's when several different telephone customers share the same line.
You never had a phone? I can remember when some people didn't have one because it was too expensive.
The way you've worded your post makes it sound like they hadn't yet been invented. There was no such a thing as a 'Celphone'
or the internet when I was growing up, either.
I used our public library a lot when I was growing up. That was our 'internet'. And yes, I used a lot of paper and pen to do my school work.
@@adamantman3200 They aren't 103. They have nothing better to do
Like, whatever, Dad.
@@adamantman3200 Talking to me or the orange profile guy?
OMG this is hilarious!!!! I remembered dialing seven digit...then ten digit even with my nails caught up with speed
Don't forget to carry (dail) the number one
I almost coughed up a lung laughing at this. 🤣
This is so funny likely my kids have always loved any things retro vintage etc.
I guess they think of them like office telephones(like the ones kids use to call home), because with them, you don't have to pick up the receiver because they have a speaker phone functionality, but if you want to have a private phone call, you do. Obviously that one is older and/or a home phone, so, you do have to pick up the receiver.
I still have a landline and a rotary classic phone just like that one in the video in my house in LA.
I am 32, I like to think I’m not old but I guess I’m wrong lol. I mean when I read the title I assumed it was going to be first graders or something. Not almost adults.
Cool
Almost adults with first grade minds.
The thing I dont get is that all of us had enough logic to know how to use the rotary phone in the 60's and 70's. Why is hatd for them to process?
I did crack up at them learning on this video. Lol 😅
Quite appalling that none of them seemed to have the slightest idea how to deal with the unfamiliar. No process, no studying of it, no looking to try to deduce function. Just fiddled with it aimlessly.
these kids would be screwed if there were an emergency and the only way to call out was to use this phone.
That is extremely unlikely m, everyone has a phone in their pocket all the timw
“AM I JUST DUMB”
Yes You are!!
we had a table model phone in house when i was born, a few months layer i wood goto the phone and play with the dials and make all kinds of calls, shortly after that they made it a wall mount in the kitchen
Wow just wow.
Also the fact they dialing without picking up the receiver
These kids have never seen a movie where people talk on a phone? You'd think they'd lift the receiver first if they had.
and you had to get all your calls and wait at home
It’s so funny that they all start from zero and then stop on the number.
It's hard to believe that kids today can't use a rotary. Times have changed since I was an 80s teen. Lol
It was 40 years ago of course they have.
It's like watching the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey
This raises a very important point I've been saying for years. You have people who go on about Why don't they build Apollo Rockets to go back to the Moon? Why don't they fly Concorde anymore? How did they build the Pyramids? Humans don't build up more knowledge as time goes on, they adapt to what is present at any time. Stop using something and that knowledge is not passed on plus the items are no longer made. Using a rotary phone is simple to those of us old enough who have used them in the past. There is a lot of knowledge we've been taught and once used that we've never passed it on to anyone else so it dies with us. Go back in time further and there are items hundreds, even thousands of years ago that use to have a purpose to people back then, but like these young people trying to fathom out how to use a phone, absolutely no one alive to day knows how to use knowledge from back then.
2:04 - She probably doesn't want me to answer that.
Looks like a Western Electric 5302.
Zero problem solving abilities.
abilities*
What's this circle jawn thing.. lol!
We had a rotary phone in our basement till i was 15 in 2006. We only got rid of it cause we moved.
That dial needs to be lubricated bad. Hilarious to see kids with olde technology.
LOL!! They keep "pressing" number holes or the center, repeatedly and it still doesn't work!!
its kind of fair enough they don't know though. If you have not used one, or seen one ,or been taught how to use one, you can understand that. But the gen Z will out do us all the time with current tech!!!! So glad I have a teen to helps me with current tech lol, even though I have diplomas in computing and computer concepts and can build one. that was back in 2000, I taught my daughter everything I knew when she was a toddler haha, she out did me in computing at age 7, sigh.
My daughter and I were out today at an antiques store and they had some old rotary phones. I showed her how to use one. Shouldn't really tease about tech you have no idea how to use. Fun part of history, and funny to watch for us older gen x/y etc
68 y,o, I love this.
You go way back to phone party line days then
@@N3ttwerk Yes.
@@markhatfield5621 imagine that working today
😂🤣😂 party lines!!!
Ah the days of old. If you were hanging up on someone, that receiver 📞 got the point across to the person the other end. 😂🤣😂
not only is it a rotary phone, it's a crusty, beat up 60+ y.o. rotary phone...
unbelievable. a child can figure this out
How do you so many of them not know to take the phone off the hook first? Have they never seen anybody use an older phone in a movie or TV show?
That's sad.
Why do I suddenly feel SO old?
Me born 1980 and was use this phone until 1989 then buy fax phone
I have been retired for about a year now. My mother had a landline phone until she died (March 2021) at the age of 89. It was not a pulse phone but tone. Of course we did have pulse type phones a long time ago. She had one cordless phone (not cellphone) and one push button phone with the push buttons in the handset.
Also, I don't think bad of the younger generation. This was before they're time. And I understand that this video was just for fun.
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How can these kids not know how to use this phone. Must be living a sheltered life. All phone subscribers have these in their houses.
Because nobody under the age of 60 uses those anymore unless their parent hates modern technology and forces them to.
@@dorathedestroyer770 I guess this is the same as when these phones were first introduced to subscribers, No one knew how these worked.
@@spunkyspice4777 exactly
god im 15 and ik how to use it i was raised in a way that ik all this stuff like my first game console was a sega genesis and we had one of these in the house that was alway in service i still have it too my first type of portable media was a walkman and 5 cassettes
Same
You know how to use a rotary phone but don't know how to use a full stop (period) at the end of a sentence and start a sentence with an uppercase letter?
Do they ever get properly instructed? I still have ONLY rotaries in my house, because it is weird (I'm 41)
Yes at the end of each student segment I gave them hints until the got it correct
I've never used a damn rotary phone in my life but I am well familiar with how it works, put finger on number indicated and rotate all the way clockwise till your finger hits the stopper. It's so simple, where is their critical thinking skills
exactly!!!
I am 1000% sure this is filmed with people from PA from the way camera man said phone/ the girl said Jawn … only thing else that would have set it even more is if one of them called it a hoagie 😂👏🏼👏🏼
Ok he said 215 … I knew they sounded more like me than anyone on YT 😂
Good Guess... NJ
@@sterlingtv19dangit .. I guess close enough 😂
I want to give them a pass for never having used one before, but it's just so intuitive that I can't comprehend how they can't figure it out. Surely a few kids figured it out and just didn't make the cut for the video? I hope?
Yes I did get one student who did get it correct after a very long time of trial and error. Eventually we showed each student how it was done after the had enough
@@sterlingtv19 Well, to be fair, I remember when my parents got their first cell phone, and I couldn't comprehend dialing a number without hearing a tone. It would be interesting to see kids react to early cell phones and see who can get the highest score on snake!
reasoning of mechanics has left the chat.
LOL!!!!!!! these kids are nuts, they dont know how to use the good old rotary dial phones! they are easy to use it, im 47 yo!!!
Hi, 47 yo, I'm dad.
Let's also see if they can figure out how activate its advanced, built-in features such as Do Not Disturb, aka (as my mom used to say) "Just take the d*mned thing off the hook!"
Or how to use its more advanced features, such as how to get your message through on a collect call without anyone paying for it. "Hello?" "This is the operator. You have a collect call from Bob Wehadababyitsaboy, will you accept the charges?" "No, thank you." "Who was that, honey?" "It was Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy." 😄
Kids today would never figure it out 😂
That explains why the Moon has not been visited again since MCMLXXII! This generation can not add 2 and 2 without a cellphone.They also do not understand the year I wrote.🎉😂
This is hilarious !!!! Oh. God
Glad you liked it
omg the closest thing they can think of to how to operate it is a combination lock. They’re turning the dial that way because they think it works like a combination lock.
Wow this is our next president or governor how sad
No it isn't
omg I am soooo old 🤣🤣🤣
They are over thing it. I'd like to see the reaction one they realize just how simple it is. God forbid they succeed and get a party line.
I laughed so hard I cried. 🤣🤣🤣
Im glad you liked it
most kid of the 80s and 90s could have done the very same to their boomer parents asking to pick up a game controller and play. Same could do many 2000s kids asking their parents to use a touch screen device.
The difference? these students are asked to try a completely obsolete object in 2022. Not really the same thing if you reverse roles, isn't it?
i do happen to know how to use a rotary phone just because grandparents still had one in the late 90s/early 2000s. So what if those kids had not the chance? wtf
kids these days can only read digital clocks. back in my day we used to have analog clocks.
kids these days can only read mechanical clocks. back in my day we used to have water clocks.
kids these days can only read water clocks. back in my day we used to have sundials.
technology evolves
No need to control a game. Just take the game out of the box set to the playing pieces and read the directions.
Why would the parents boom anything? Well my father used to discard old TV picture tubes which caused a boom noise from the vacuum caused when the picture tube was broke from breaking the neck of that.
I was born in 1981 this is so laughable 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pick up the receiver spin the number to the bar each time I garontee you will get someone on the otherside
Ah, the ones trying to sort of finger walk the dial continuously to each number. Obviously wrong but I can see where they're coming from.
It's weird, I can't remember ever actually using one to make a call, though we did have one. Only time I ever used one was at an exhibit showing how the old analogue phone exchanges worked.
I'm just saddened and fell old.
Есть люди, которые не умеют пользоваться часами со стрелками и цифрами
How does nobody eventually figure it out? There’s not a whole lot of options…even if you don’t know, you’re gonna figure it out.
They cut all that footage out so their older viewers can still feel smug. It's like every single TV show that interviews random pedestrians. They show only the dumb ones because that's the most entertaining.
hahahahahahahahaha so funny !
kids who think they know it all, you should ask google right?
HOHOHO
Guess what else kids?
There used to be pay phones scattered all over the America!! For ten cents you could call someone. Well, we could call someone. You know, because we knew how!!
😎💯🔥✌👉💣👈✌🔥💯😎
You remember a pay phone being a dime to use. I remember it being a nickle!
@@jazzcatt being a jazzcatt you must have grown up in the roaring 20's. Did you hang out at a speakeasy, or did you get your booze from a stash house?
Ha Ha!!
Did anyone find how it work?
Yes of all the kids, There were 2 who got it
Actually sorry for my English 😂 I am reading my comment today, and I am reaALLLY ashamed 😅
Easy for me, believe it or not
Sad sad sad
I'm one of the rare Gen Z types who does know how to use a rotary phone, but that's mainly because I love old tech so much XDDDD. Its so simple once you understand it, but seeing these kids fail hilariously is just....well, hilarious XD
Even if you never saw one, you should be able to figure it out. Got to be staged.
I just walked the kids in and asked them to make a call. They had never seen anything like it before. Wasn't staged. Their world is push buttons. You saw what happened as they tried
I'm working on a Panic Room that has one of these as one of the many locks required to "Escape" from it. Now I'm wondering how many Gen Z and Alphas will get stuck there. 😂
This is so sad...
If you had a zero in your phone number, no one called you.
Why all of my rotary phones have zeros on them. I have 4 rotary phones.
It is sad. Kids these days know nothing about old tech, no more cursive writing taught, in school either. My niece had no clue how to fill an envelope for her Thank You notes. No clue about Geography, all they see is their phones and gaming as the most important thing in their lives. We are in trouble…
So how does a telegraph work?
"It's broken!"
"It works..."
Does it though? Didn't the phone systems finally kill off pulse dialing like 20 years ago, and only work with tone now?
Mark, I had all the cord hook-ups and adapters still on it, but I didn't plug it into anything. The few who got it right (not in the video) I talked too them from my camera position
Some phone systems (As in like an office phone system) will still work with pulse dialing on their analog extensions.
In theory you could connect the phone to a phone system and use it to call internal / external numbers. I have done this before.
You have totally missed the point
@@sterlingtv19 Why didn't you put them in the video?
This is 😔 😢
Kids have zero problem solving skills. Just looking at a phone you should be able to figure out how to dial a phone