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I 've mentioned that I like searching Ebay for childhood toys, furniture of yore and so forth. Youtube too is a wonderful resource to look up old songs, movie and TV clips from our pasts.
Wired.com recently posted a list of tech sounds we won't -- or don't -- hear anymore. Included was payphone sounds, which come in all kinds. If you look up those on Youtube, there's a reminder of the old, complex and wonderful system that we give up by using cell phones. Every part of the pay phone sounds you'd hear had significance:
network sounds
sounds part 2
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Well, couldn't post a video but linking works.
got my first cell phone. Answering machines were a real benefit to me too.
I never thought the day would come when everyone, including the children,
would have their own phones.