Do phone operators still exist?

Last night I was chatting with a group of friends spanning from 22-50 years old about things that make us feel really old.

None of the youngsters had ever heard of long distance calling, and couldn’t fathom the idea of getting a phone bill that was based on how much you talked on the phone. Remember weekend rates?

So I started wondering, if you have a landline, what happens if you dial “0” these days? Does the AT&T lady still pick up?

 

Gee, I wonder how we could find out...

 

There's got to be a youtube video about this.

 

I think the last time I used a "calling card" was in 2000? Was like $.05/min from ANY phone. If you remember how hotels
used to wack they hell outta of you for incidentals like phone calls!
My son had a melt down when his iphone went kaput on Saturday...lol. Longest 5.5hrs of his life!

 

Power flickered, better call time and temp to set the clocks again.

 

Yeah, I haven’t had a landline since 2007. Maybe one of you dinosaurs can pick up the receiver on your sports illustrated shoe phone and dial “0”.

Report back, mmkay?

 

funny thing... we have a young kid on our construction crew that didn't know what the metal plate on the wall with the RJ11 plug was for.
Even worse... didnt know that having call waiting or 2 lines was a "luxury"...lol. Spoilt brats!

 

Geez, get off my lawn already! We used to have a party line and I can remember when the phone numbers started out with letters that represented the town or district.

 

Aren't you one of those fuckers shooting hormones to convince yourself that you're not as old as you are? I get some of you guys confused.

 

You do not need a landline to test this.

 

Oh my.

 

No! Maybe...

But but I hit my head and I neeeed it.

Plus I’m only 38 so I’m still in denial about aging...

 

Busy signal. My parents were too check for call waiting.

Come to think of it, my childhood home still has a landline. My step father refuses to get a cell phone.

 

They do. Somewhere in India.

 

This isn't dinosaur old but used to play doom 1v1 over dialup modem. Noone could use the phone and if they picked up connection got fucked, or if someone answered while the guy was trying to connect,we had to start all over again.

Just old enough to remember rotary phones. Me and my wife's old man were talking about it one day and she asked WTF we were talkin' about. We had a good laugh.

 

You, used to play original Warcraft late at night with my buddy....damn modem would screeth so loud while connecting i used to jam a pillow in the back of the PC to quiet it down during connection so it wouldnt make so much racket...

Ah the good old days....

Back in Yugoslavia, we had the only phone in the neighborhood....yea top that bitches! First to have a VHS player....it was called Lucky Goldstar....which later on re-branded itself and became a powerhouse electronics company....maybe you've heard of it? LG?

 

Only Missis Kawhiggins....

 

The '64 world's fair had video phones so smart phones are "old tech". When I was a kid the Franklin Institute had a pair of phones, one was a dial the other was a push button....you would time yourself on each and it would calculate how much time you saved...Oh the wonders of the modern world.

 

I have a landline but there are no phones hooked up to it. It comes with the Comcast package.
If I had a phone, though, I'd push the zero just so we can get an answer to the original query.

 

I'm at the office. I tried dialing "0". There is a list of options you need to go through, but if you choose "0" again, you will get the operator.