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Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.
Subject:Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would. From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:58:40 -0600
From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Subject: Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.
The same thing happened 75 years ago when
the phone company went away from operators handling every call to
customers being able to dial their own (using, gasp, a rotary dial) and
they had to introduce new terms and teach people what a dial tone was,
what a busy signal was, and what a ring tone was.
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Funny thing is, we're still using one piece of telephone-related jargon
that's now out of date -- the word "dial." I don't think anybody uses
rotary-dial phones anymore, and I'm waiting for my daughter to ask me
why they call it "dialing" when you're actually pushing buttons.
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