14/02/2023
I remember tapping these phones you didn’t n need coins if you’re number had a zero you dial o 9 taps was 1 , 8 taps was 2 , 7 taps 3 and so on wonder if you can still do that 🤔?
How on earth did we survive without mobile phones? And remember when a mobile phone looked like this?
Before mobiles, I-pads, computers or even Facebook, if you were out and about and wanted to get in touch with your family or friends you had to find a public phone (one that hadn’t been vandalised. Did we even have as many vandals then?).
You’d have to feed the money into the slot, and if it was an interstate call you’d better have a few bucks in coins sitting on the top of the phone waiting too. I can remember when I lived in Sydney and didn’t have a home phone I’d have to drive to the phone booth with a pocket full of coins to ring my Mum or sisters in Adelaide to catch up.
