Rotary Phone Challenge for Students in 2022

[@3rdaxis649]

Zero problem solving abilities.

[@dora_thedestroyer]

abilities*

[@chrisstorms7511]

these kids would be screwed if there were an emergency and the only way to call out was to use this phone.

[@greggi47]

@@NitttNattt I don't. My phone stays home unless I'm traveling or expect a necessary call. I don't share the induced anxiety over not being immediately and constantly accessible every moment.

[@greggi47]

I think they would be screwed because its increasingly unlikely they would locate a phone anywhere. Even payphones on the street or in public buildings are nearly all gone.

[@ignorethisaccount69]

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.

[@ignorethisaccount69]

Yeah I know I'm kinda weird.

[@ignorethisaccount69]

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.

[@TheLordOfNothing]

@@ignorethisaccount69 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.

[@proletariennenaturiste]

@@ignorethisaccount69 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.

[@armybeef68]

Your parents taught you well.

[@EmmaWhitaker-gf3uc]

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.

[@rsprockets7846]

and you had to get all your calls and wait at home

[@gadnuk666]

Exactly what I was thinking. And if the movie/series isn't old enough for (rotary) dial phones, then there's bound to be one where a character watches a movie where one is used.

[@Groovy-z3x]

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.

[@johnbarthol6493]

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.

[@kellygene8459]

The biggest thing that I'm blown away about is hardly any of them even pick up the receiver!!

[@Validboy]

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..

[@gpocollectorboy3391]

It is actually called the handset. The receiver only makes up one part of the handset. 😜

[@PegasusBYU]

They don’t even know what a dial tone is!

[@ScottNipper-xs5zw]

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

[@1977ajax]

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.

[@theoneandonlyK]

"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"

[@DP-hy4vh]

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.

[@tianwong152]

BEEE-BOOOOO-DOO-LUU-DOO-LUU

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

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.

[@soniadowney7427]

It's not a combination to a safe 😂😂😂

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

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.

[@JosephsNostalgicRevolution]

It's so sad to see these youngsters didn't even know how to use the rotary phone properly, as a side note to myself who used a rotary phone before. I was born in 2000 and I taught myself how to use a rotary phone back in March, all you have to do is pick up the receiver and use the finger to turn the dial to the assigned number and release it when you hit the stopper, is that simple, not form of rocket science. I even taught my little sister how to use the rotary phone, it took her at least 3 times to get used to the satisfaction of dialing a number with a rotary phone, when the third times a charm, she done it, because I taught her the right way of dialing with a rotary phone. Thank you for understanding! Joseph

[@masterxeon1001]

so time travel isnt possible for alot of reasons. This might be another one i didnt consider.

[@WatchMeWatchStuff]

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

[@froglover4203]

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.

[@kingxxi8301]

@@froglover4203 fr bro this dude trippin lol

[@tmarritt]

Of course you knew how to use 'much more outdated tech' it was still all analogue.

[@iftheseoldbeastscouldtalk7796]

​@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.

[@normaforsyth7950]

Nothing sad about this. It's freaking HILARIOUS!

[@jamielpatterson2576]

Imagine if it was a rotary dial payphone.

[@mv2021nj]

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”?

[@nottellinnoone2074]

You have to pick up the phone and hear the dial tone before dialing lol

[@goldfieldgary]

Or if on a party line, put the receiver back down gently if you were hearing a conversation.

[@michaelcunha6155]

Let's not even go that deep into this...please

[@teddyjam8134]

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. 😅

[@normaforsyth7950]

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

[@jazzcatt]

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!

[@normaforsyth7950]

@@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.

[@eksortso]

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?

[@KiwiKyle]

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 :)

[@calima3921]

I remember my family getting their first phone, when I was a kid. And how exciting it was to pick up the receiver and hear the dial tone. I remember the clickety click sound as you dialed the numbers, and you could dial operator in an emergency or to ask assistance in reaching a phone number. I miss that. Then there were the pay phones. The sounds of coins going down into the phone is a fond memory.

[@ArchimGregorios]

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.

[@cmqguy]

At least some of them picked up the reciever. Now that’s a start, lol.

[@steveburke1519]

To be fair, when rotary phones were first introduced, adults didn't understand them either.

[@THOMMGB]

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.

[@burdrchitect1680]

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]

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 😂😂

[@burdrchitect1680]

@@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.

[@spunkyspice4777]

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.

[@Nushgala]

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.

[@spunkyspice4777]

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.

[@braemtes23]

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.

[@jazzcatt]

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.

[@michaelgoulding6609]

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,

[@jeanhansel5805]

I can remember when there were letters, not numbers, in a telephone prefix. I also remember a party line phone, a line shared by three customers, each with a different number of rings to let the customer know if the phone call is for them. Sometimes, when attempting to place a call, when the receiver was picked up, you could hear the conversations with other parties on the line and would have to hang up and try again later until the line was free. One thing that hasn't caught up with modern phone technology is that directions to leave messages remain in the analog world, e.g., "If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911". I also miss being able to slam down the receiver when angry or frustrated with, let's say by way of example, the ending of a call with unhelpful customer service. This last one was featured in an episode of "Seinfeld".

[@pipermoonshine]

they need to bring back history class and use this phone as a ice breaker.

[@deltaradiation]

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??

[@Cheersthewinners]

I think they’re doing it in purpose

[@pubart4828]

it’s obsolete technology anyway. stop bitching and moaning.

[@mikeslater6246]

This issue is not new. Around 30 years ago my son asked if one of his friends could stay for dinner. I said we need to call his parents to make sure it was okay and pointed to the French provincial rotary dial phone. He looked at it and had no idea how to dial but he did know to pick up the handset.

[@jonchalk3855]

It is interesting to see that the newest generation of kids do not have the problem-solving skills. When phones first came on the market (the rotary style) back in early 20th century, somehow people figured it out. Though, I imagine that they were initially taught to use their new telephones. Today, in class, I noticed that the older students in my age group were taking notes by hand. The younger students (in their early 20s) were not taking any notes. They were the ones asking the teacher to repeat herself numerous times. I was asked why I took notes. I replied: to reinforce what I am learning and to use my hand muscle memory.

[@Trendyviews.]

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 it hard for them to process? I did crack up at them learning on this video. Lol 😅

[@greggi47]

I doubt that many people learned to use rotary dial phones simply by logic. There were plenty of examples of people using some so learning by example was the mode.

[@sandybruce9092]

I hi esrly do not remember having to be told how to use a rotary phone. But I’m still trying to figure out everything my iPhone can do!!!

[@toeknee5777]

Its all fake

[@luqmanrashid1651]

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.

[@AlexBrandon.]

Please never tell them the secret ... we want these videos to last and last

[@grandpabill1959]

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

[@dora_thedestroyer]

Their* And your grandpa was an asshole.

[@Tintoycar]

They always say "that's before my time". I know Mozart, also before my time.

[@spunkyspice4777]

I would love to hear these sheltered kids answer the question. “What is a party line?” Where they should know.

[@afonphoenix16]

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?🤷

[@spunkyspice4777]

@@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.

[@afonphoenix16]

@@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.🤷

[@spunkyspice4777]

@@afonphoenix16 Should not be. Mine is reliable and the iPhone is great for listening to music.

[@justinedse8435]

​@@afonphoenix16Cell phones require electricity

[@theyjustwantyourmoney4539]

I’m an 80s kid, this phone had a real mechanical bell that was so loud like a fire bell, we could hear it from the street and we’d run home

[@christinav.3623]

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!

[@jasonevanbaldwin9922]

You can also tap the headset button in sequence like Morse code. tap 5 times = 5 and so on...

[@michaela.6381]

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…

[@mjtunstall1976]

same here!

[@greggi47]

Fine, but most of them didn't know to lift the handset.

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Yup, that would be my approach... Lift the handset, check for dial tone and then dial the number by tapping the hookswitch buttons at about 10 pulses per second with 1 second gaps between numbers. Number of taps is equal to the number to be dialed except 10 taps for "0". What I would really love to see is the student after me after observing this method trying to do the same!

[@adamantman3200]

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.

[@GjHj-mi3ov]

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

[@adamantman3200]

@@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.

[@TheLordOfNothing]

@@adamantman3200 They aren't 103. They have nothing better to do

[@adamantman3200]

Like, whatever, Dad.

[@TheLordOfNothing]

@@adamantman3200 Talking to me or the orange profile guy?

[@goldfieldgary]

The support equipment at the local phone office always fascinated me. They used step relays - - dialing each digit would activate a mechanical relay, if you dialed 3 for example, the first relay would click three steps and direct your next number to the second relay, and so on until all numbers were dialed, opening the line to your desired party. My father worked in one of these, he said when everything got really noisy he knew something was up and would turn on the radio to check the news. He said the noisiest they ever got when he worked there was the afternoon President Kennedy was shot.

[@brucewilliams8714]

Oh, it's grand at my age, 89, to feel so superior to these (otherwise) tech savvy young people.

[@hoteldennis]

Looks like a Western Electric 5302.

[@SoniaJbrt]

I had a great time laughing! 😂 Sorry kids, you all fail🤣

[@dora_thedestroyer]

You don't know what an IP is.

[@krisradjpaul278]

This is so funny likely my kids have always loved any things retro vintage etc.

[@rsprockets7846]

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

[@dinorossi6611]

I still have a landline and a rotary classic phone just like that one in the video in my house in LA.

[@doe9de995]

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.

[@dragonmaster1360]

I was born in the 90s, and thus never had to use one of these. However, I still know how to use it! These students have literally never seen an old movie or show, have never had curiosity about old tech, and have zero problem solving skills.

[@FranBushardt]

“AM I JUST DUMB” Yes You are!!

[@greggi47]

No--not dumb, simply ignorant.

[@Ivan-cr3vc]

Not sure if that confusion was all real. But here's a blast from the past. With a phone like the one pictured, you could actually tap out a phone number using the 2 posts that the receiver sits on when hung up. You would tap quickly each number with a slight hesitation between them. You were somewhere where a phone with no dial (as a courtesy phone) could be picked up to take a waiting call but no one could pick it up and just make calls as it had no dial. We still have a rotary phone plugged in to our land line. And if power goes out and no cell towers are up the rotary phone can dial out using the power that still exists in the line. Old tech for powering the PBX systems.

[@nhgfdjuytre3785]

It's like watching the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey

[@michaela.6381]

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.

[@jennchycoski7455]

What's tcp/ip? 😂

[@Efebur]

Lol no they don't. Computer literacy is going down. They know how to use smartphones but that's about it.

[@dora_thedestroyer]

@@Efebur We actually do know what that is.

[@michaelgoulding6609]

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

[@lifenotbills]

It’s so funny that they all start from zero and then stop on the number.

[@valeriemoore2762]

The first time someone handed me their smartphone, it was just a blank black screen." Where are the numbers? " At least they had something to work with and figure out.

[@AronBezzina]

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.

[@jonnellefeliciano2027]

Cool

[@spunkyspice4777]

Almost adults with first grade minds.

[@greggi47]

@@spunkyspice4777 First grade minds are unformed minds that need to be taught and can be educated.

[@proletariennenaturiste]

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.

[@sasapetroski981]

Me born 1980 and was use this phone until 1989 then buy fax phone

[@gtlfb]

Next up - a Viewmaster and making a mix tape.

[@ChrisHirner]

Even though I used these up to my teen years I still remember dialing a wrong number or 2

[@Ceeeje]

not only is it a rotary phone, it's a crusty, beat up 60+ y.o. rotary phone...

[@jamielpatterson2576]

A black crusty, beat up 60+ y.o. rotary phone, at a time when black was the only color you could get.

[@gj8683]

First, you have to hold the receiver part of the handset to your ear to listen if there's a dial tone (good) or if someone else is using the line from another extension. Then, for each number, stick your finger in the hole and turn until you reach the metal piece on the right, then release until the dial returns to the starting position. That's how it was when I was growing up. Frankly, though, I much prefer the push buttons because of my large fingers, even though the butt end of a Bic pen solved that problem.

[@CalgaryRambler]

Being born in 1970, I grew up using these rotary phones. Seeing the millennials try and use this type of phone is Priceless😂

[@cadman10000]

You do know that the youngest millennial is 27, right? These kids are all gen Z.

[@dora_thedestroyer]

The oldest milennials are 44.

[@matt_ohern]

i'm a millenial, or, xenial, and grew up w/ one and used it in my house until the mid 1990's

[@valve6642]

That "period", game show music tho😂😂😂

[@beckyg.8228]

It's hard to believe that kids today can't use a rotary. Times have changed since I was an 80s teen. Lol

[@dora_thedestroyer]

It was 40 years ago of course they have.

[@George-yt2rs]

They laugh at seniors who can't do basic new technology but we can have a laugh too about our old tech skills we can do, it's quite charming . Hey granddad can you help me make a call 😅😅😅

[@sandybruce9092]

I hope these kids were shown how this phone really works!

[@MJacksonXenos]

How can people’s be so f’n obvious. Do they explicitly need to be taught how to do everything?

[@mikeslater6246]

Yes!

[@yinrocher7568]

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

[@georgehenderson7783]

I almost coughed up a lung laughing at this. 🤣

[@Bandicoot803]

Vintage rotary telephones are way easier to use than iPhone, undeniable truth and fact. But the convenience of a fancy smartphone GUI has rendered youngsters totally dumb and blindfolded. They are in no possession of common consent. Sad and depressing.

[@angelrivera8558]

This scary to se how lost they will be lost if all electronics brake down

[@troyBORG]

Wow just wow. Also the fact they dialing without picking up the receiver

[@michaelw7053]

What's this circle jawn thing.. lol!

[@redonk1740]

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?

[@sterlingtv19]

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

[@redonk1740]

@@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!

[@georgewhitehead8185]

Not only do they not know what a rotary phone is, they also do not know what "roll up windows" are. Doctor George Whitehead

[@michaelcunha6155]

Somebody stand there and instruct them please ...then make em do it

[@pixie99]

What would be even more challenging would be phones before rotary dialing...where it was a matter of ringing a handle to make a combination os short and long rings as in morse code....there were maybe 10 houses on one line and each had a different combination of short and long. This was in rural New Zealand 70 odd years ago.......😊

[@Iggythemovieman]

If these kids ever needed to phone for help. It would be quicker if they follow the wire to the nearest police station

[@greggi47]

You are thinking in terms of something they will probably never encounter. Their phone is that thing always in their hands. No wires.

[@mjtunstall1976]

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!!!

[@dora_thedestroyer]

Hi, 47 yo, I'm dad.

[@spunkyspice4777]

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.

[@dora_thedestroyer]

Because nobody under the age of 60 uses those anymore unless their parent hates modern technology and forces them to.

[@spunkyspice4777]

@@dora_thedestroyer I guess this is the same as when these phones were first introduced to subscribers, No one knew how these worked.

[@dora_thedestroyer]

@@spunkyspice4777 exactly

[@greggi47]

Name three.

[@Azzameen99AZ]

Come on, kids! Have none of you played Trivia Murder Party before?!

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

I am 50 yrs. old and have 2 of those phones

[@sandybruce9092]

I’d love to find a rotary,phone with the correct wall connection - I’d buy it in a minute if the price was right! I rarely even see old phones in antique stores anymore - at least where I live! We still have a land line that I use - but it’s a push button and not a rotary!

[@chrisingle5839]

Do they ever get properly instructed? I still have ONLY rotaries in my house, because it is weird (I'm 41)

[@sterlingtv19]

Yes at the end of each student segment I gave them hints until the got it correct

[@theweirdospfan.28]

I have such a large phone collection and I have 3 rotary dial phones. And two of them are that exact model

[@thesixshooter6506]

Why do I suddenly feel SO old?

[@matthewdonovan1240]

They all keep pushing the numbers lol!! Oh and the girl who pushed the middle and thought it was broken.

[@pibbleandthepibbians]

This video makes me worry even more about the future generations of teens… 😟

[@kleverich]

2:04 - She probably doesn't want me to answer that.

[@NinePartsAngel]

omg I am soooo old 🤣🤣🤣

[@JSerrato289]

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

[@familybills2908]

exactly!!!

[@glennenechristiansen4956]

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.

[@sandybruce9092]

When I was a kid a very long time ago % we would call my grandparents on Christmas - all the way from AZ to,PA % but yiu had to call the operator and let them know we wanted to make a long distance call - we were then out on a list and the operator would call back when it was our turn - gave the operator the number and she would make the call! And it was cheaper to call after about 9pm I think but we couldn’t call grandparents that late because we were 2-3 time zones earlier! Sure was fun!

[@ClappedBayou300]

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

[@FirstNLastN]

Same

[@jazzcatt]

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?

[@DanielVeteto-fj4fi]

I never could use one. But could dial 0, and ask the operator to dial the number for me

[@greggi47]

None of them is dumb--just ignorant about a tech they have never encountered. At least most realized that the circular part has to move. I'd enjoy seeingtheir response to watching what happens at the switching center as each number is dialed.

[@DD-uf2uo]

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. .

[@drockherb2073]

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 😂👏🏼👏🏼

[@drockherb2073]

Ok he said 215 … I knew they sounded more like me than anyone on YT 😂

[@sterlingtv19]

Good Guess... NJ

[@drockherb2073]

@@sterlingtv19dangit .. I guess close enough 😂

[@TS-ef2gv]

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." 😄