The idea is to use the rotary dial from an old telephone to enter numbers into a computer. It’s slow and cumbersome, but it’s also pretty entertaining.

An old rotary phone purchased from an antique store in Monroe, Louisiana, is at home on a side table in 2024 even though it's not hooked up and doesn't work.

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Leer en Español. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield.

What a thing it was: an object to marvel at in the home, a medium of drama in films and books. How strange that now, when we ...

The carrier reasoned that plain old telephone service is, well, old, and demand is low. Only about 5% of the households AT&T serves use copper-based landlines, a company spokesperson said.