There’s something so nostalgic about the rotary phone that makes it a fun thing to hack and modernize. [Voidon] put his skills to the test and converted one to VoIP using a Raspberry Pi.

With rotary phones, you’d generally put your finger ... with the discordant (though now, oddly nostalgic) sounds that accompanied dial-up Internet. But did you ever wonder what all of those ...

Note: the dial tone and rotary dial telephone are two sounds your kids probably haven't heard. Before dial telephones, we made phone calls through an operator. You picked up the phone, there was ...

Two years later, a promised purchasable DIY kit allowing anyone to build their own, complete with a working rotary dial ... so it sounds like an old school landline phone when someone calls ...

Since its introduction in the latter half of the 1800s, the phone has become ... it to their ear before dialing. The woman ...

The rotary phone is a great example here, and while rarely anyone would want to go back to the lenghty, error-prone way of dialing a number ... if [Caroline]’s name sounds familiar to you ...

Recently I called a local company and was startled to hear voice mail begin with this once-familiar phrase: “If you have a touch-tone phone, press 1 now.” Years ago, you’d hear that phrase all the ...

rotary or push-button dialing, a dial-tone when you pick up the receiver, and even a busy signal. Calls made through POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) sound better than calls made though cell phones.

My husband bought an old rotary ... what a dial tone sounded like and explained what happened if the phone stayed off the hook too long. We also tried to recreate that obnoxious sound.

turn the dial, and release (for each number) in order to make a phone call. Haupt said that part of the reason she wanted to take on the challenge of building a rotary cell phone was because “in ...