The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • Che Banana
    16·
    9 months ago

    bundled in our internet is a landline…so we found a vintage rotary phone and hooked it up. We can receive but not call out. It’s awesome.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      15·
      9 months ago

      If you’re interested, these things will convert rotary pulses to tones and allow your old phone to interface with the phone system (and voip systems too)

      Edit: nvm, someone beat me to it

    • qprimedEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      not a recommendation (I have not used any pulse to tone converters), but this may help you out.

      • Che Banana
        2·
        9 months ago

        Appreciate all the comments, its just a novelty at the moment but if we ever start to use it it would be for reservations only (and incoming only).

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      3·
      9 months ago

      Mine can even still call out, but the router/modem doesn’t supply enough voltage (or current, not sure) so you really have to scream to be heard and only hear a faint whisper.