1072 Linda Uses a Machine to Call Her Dad

From 1977, interesting how advanced technology has become..

[@raea3588]

Today, we not only have to explain what a TTY is we have to explain what Bob's rotary phone was 🤭Eventually, people who didn't have a TTY could communicate with someone who did through an operator that works as an interpreter of what's being written and then spoken over the phone. It's called the telephone relay service and it is still used.

[@mollylea2643]

I was reading that some Deaf people actually learned about the TTY for the first time watching the show with their kids.

[@gsnfan]

I remember seeing this when it originally aired. This was quite a contraption at the time. A early kind of texting.

[@cristyrodas]

R.I.P Bob McGrath!!!🕊

[@Garrettk41]

Nice little set of scenes. Oh, the evolution of communication.

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

4:42 hope those calls were local. 😐

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

How come no one taught sign language to children in School??

[@SweetHeartHolly1982]

This may be a dumb question, but I'd love to know if a machine like this is still used at all. God bless you always!!! Holly in east TN

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I doubt this machine is still used, when everyone can text now.

[@NicholasMoreau]

At least in Canada, there are still pay phones in major transit hubs with this attached. But that’s just a remnant of the early 2000s when they were introduced locally. (I think early 2000s, my memory of it is vague.)

[@NicholasMoreau]

There is a TTY mode on cell phones, so you can essentially text to someone with one of the physical devices on a land line. But it’s indeed increasingly uncommon.

[@kristopherchristman]

I can vouch that these devices are still usable in some form. My one friend still uses one of these regularly. Even still uses calculator like displays like this one. He texts but he's used one of these for so long it's just what he prefers. You can also call a special number that will act as a middleman if you wanted to, so what my friend types gets spoken to me by the operator, and what I say the operator types to my friend on my behalf. But I don't do that myself, I just call him directly with my device when I want to chat with him.

[@homosoftommorow]

It's not a device like this but TTY technology has transferred to the phones we have now. Plus deaf folks can video chat and sign as well as there's a resource where folks can have an interpretor apart of their video chat but I forget what it's called

[@OofusTwillip]

An early TTY machine!

[@andresbustamante4777]

David almost forgot to say sesame street was brought to you

[@ThirdOfJune4444]

The first Facebook Messenger

[@princess_ama]

The letter sponsors for this episode were S and W, and CTW was renamed Sesame Workshop (SW) over 20 years later.

[@OofusTwillip]

S&W is also a brand of canned fruits and juices, since 1896. It's short for Sussman & Wormser.

[@Himegw]

What year is that? Late 70s???

[@suffix345]

1977

[@lydiajohn77]

This was so cool and well ahead of its time

[@nathangorman4600]

Nowadays, people who are deaf can talk to people on the iPhone by texting. You deaf people out there can read what I just said, can you?😄😄😄 Just kidding! I know you can.

[@aimeewigton1453]

You could see him calculating the phone bill Did she not have a phone in her house ir did she live with bob

[@00zarzu00]

no phone

[@triciabuenaluz6438]

When people were nicer and life simpler.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

I doubt that people were ever nicer in any time

[@carmensandiego328]

@@DaveFisher-cq2drain’t that the truth. The only place where it was ever a happy place was Sesame Street. I miss the good old days.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

a great invention for deaf people, long before Facebook was invented

[@JenniferEnnett]

Yes

[@kevinraymcgaugh7164]

That’s a nice 👍 TTY

[@mcwooley]

How long ago was this? 45 years yet? Must have been pretty cool! But we still have some way to go; smart devices still don't have any tactile display Unless you count the rumble feature, which MAY be able to read dits and dahs to deaf-blind people at about 3 words per minute My point is, our devices need something more like Tacttoo and/or Braibook built in (as well as transflective screens that don't damage vision) When dealing with modern tech companies, I hope you will ask them to be more considerate of people who are differently abled Thursday, February 9, 2023 CE, 23:55 EST

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

Bet they didn’t sell many of those. 😐 $3,000.

[@sesamestreetclassicmusican2278]

🥰😍🥰

[@TheMSW1291]

Is that Linda's first appearance on the street???

[@sesamemaniac855]

Oh not at all. She made her first appearance in 1971

[@aepacker]

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