For example, i recently learned how to properly use a can opener, and i’m pushing 30. PLEASE tell me i’m not alone in having these weird knowledge gaps. what’s yours?
For example, i recently learned how to properly use a can opener, and i’m pushing 30. PLEASE tell me i’m not alone in having these weird knowledge gaps. what’s yours?
I’m 43. How does Call Waiting work? Like how do you switch over from one call to the other?
I’ve never had any situation where I had a second call come in while already in a call, but seriously how tf does that work?
So what happens is you push a button to switch to the new call. The call you were on goes on hold. Then you can switch back to the first call and the second call is put on hold. You can keep switching back and forth as much as you want. And last, you have an option to bring BOTH calls on the line at the same time.
Honestly how did two wires on old phones power the phone, got it to ring, hold a two-way conversation, and also dial out? Only two wires?!?
I took a class at college on it and the mystery was revealed but I’m still convinced it’s magic.
Apparently they ran on like 90 volts!
Yeah, I didn’t have a landline phone at home as a kid, but I was still stupid and curious enough to lick the phone wires at a friend’s house out of curiosity.
Note to self, don’t lick random wires… 💀
You sir are not allowed around AM radio towers! lol
I only learned my lesson
threefive times, never again!Oh man, you need to look up AM radio towers!
LOL.
When I get a second phone call and answer it, it puts my current phone call on hold. It then has an option on the screen to switch between calls, along with a button that I think merges the calls? Never tried that one. When I hang up on the second call, it switches me back to the first call automatically. I’ve never heard it called “call waiting” before so I’m not sure if this is what you’re referring to or not, though…
I think that was what they originally called it, Call Waiting, back in the landline phone days. I just never had a landline phone, my late father was too paranoid to ever get a phone installed, so I basically started cutting my phone teeth on cell phones around age 33…
Haha this is kinda hilarious. I’m in my late 20s and, reading your comment, I’m like “oh man I can’t imagine skipping over landlines and going straight to cell phones, is that really a thing?” And then I realized that, yeah, a majority of the people younger than me probably did exactly that. But I also still consider the Wii a “new” game console, so I might just be frozen in time or something…
Because it is. It only came out…
does the math
…whoa. When did my hair go grey? When did nazis infiltrate the government???
Jesus christ!!! How long was my nap???
Oh boy, how long until things start making me feel old?? I’m still waiting for that day to come!
To be fair, there’s a baby picture of me. I’m no more than 5 days old. I look like I’m already sick of life’s shit.
What can I say? This world has just always been full of bullshit, and I hsve no tolerance.
Like shrinkflation. My last bottle of Dawn said 70oz. The one I bought last week was $0.70 more expensive, and it’s 66oz.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuucking bullshit!
Nah, most everyone had landline phones back in the 90s, it was more or less just my stubborn and paranoid dad that refused to get one.
But yeah, shit happens 🤷
Oh I know, I just thought it was funny that the idea of someone not having had a landline was weird to me, until I realized that most people nowadays don’t have them! We just had one of those “plug directly into the phone line, no electricity needed” phones until 2006ish because my mom was paranoid about caller ID for the longest time, so I get it :)
And I now have a free Walmart WiFi account…
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Password: Walmart1
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Have at it if you ever need it!
I’m new to Lemmy but I think I sent you a message lol
Welcome to Lemmy 👍