Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone. But ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell phone ...

This guy passed a rotary phone in his father's house and wanted to learn how to use it. Unfortunately, his dad didn't want to teach him, so he struggled to figure out that turning the dial to would ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

I love a bit of weird tech shoved inside of other weird tech. In fact, it's one of the reasons I write about hardware to this day, and one person turning their rotary phone into a Bluetooth headset ...

The first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan. Matthew Komatsu via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went ...

And similar to the phones of yesteryear that ended a call when you physically hung them up, the dial keyboard’s designers created an accompanying stand that turns off your webcam during a video call ...

A vintage black rotary phone is housed inside a hutch that looks like a Little Free Library. The curious structure is set back from the shoreline and playground equipment at Arlington’s Bowman Springs ...