Placing collect calls from payphones to yr parents where you’d just tell em where you were and when you would be home.
January 10, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Placing collect calls from payphones to yr parents where you’d just tell em where you were and when you would be home.
Black & white TV with only 3 or 4 channels & no remote controls; dial phones; payphones; cars with no A/C & only AM radios.
January 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Black & white TV with only 3 or 4 channels & no remote controls; dial phones; payphones; cars with no A/C & only AM radios.
Rewriting the 2nd chapter of my 2nd draft... Wyatt has a slow-motion meltdown while still unaware he's a ghost. I torture him unnecessarily every day... reposted bc my typos are embarrassing actually #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts #favelinefriday
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Rewriting the 2nd chapter of my 2nd draft... Wyatt has a slow-motion meltdown while still unaware he's a ghost. I torture him unnecessarily every day... reposted bc my typos are embarrassing actually #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts #favelinefriday
These are making me fucking Lol. Like I remember when I used payphones too
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
These are making me fucking Lol. Like I remember when I used payphones too
And payphones were on every corner.
January 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
And payphones were on every corner.
When I was a teen, my mom gave me numbers to dial before the actual number I was calling, for free calls from payphones. They were all like 10 digits. Can't remember what the fuck they were called, but I got really good at memorizing numbers because of that
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
When I was a teen, my mom gave me numbers to dial before the actual number I was calling, for free calls from payphones. They were all like 10 digits. Can't remember what the fuck they were called, but I got really good at memorizing numbers because of that
payphones started requiring quarters, dimes no longer being sufficient, due to inflation
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
payphones started requiring quarters, dimes no longer being sufficient, due to inflation
Payphones, pagers, short range walkie talkies?
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Payphones, pagers, short range walkie talkies?
Yeah, same! My house and nearby family both got landlines put in sometime around 1993. For payphones, shit, just remembered callcards
January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Yeah, same! My house and nearby family both got landlines put in sometime around 1993. For payphones, shit, just remembered callcards
i guess when you notice the cute guy next to you, running out of change, you are willing to offer him a few cents.
made it for tumblrs zukkaweek 2025
Absolutely pulled an amalas here by plastering my online name a bunch of time as graffiti tag.
#AvatarTheLastAirbender #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla
made it for tumblrs zukkaweek 2025
Absolutely pulled an amalas here by plastering my online name a bunch of time as graffiti tag.
#AvatarTheLastAirbender #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla
January 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
i guess when you notice the cute guy next to you, running out of change, you are willing to offer him a few cents.
made it for tumblrs zukkaweek 2025
Absolutely pulled an amalas here by plastering my online name a bunch of time as graffiti tag.
#AvatarTheLastAirbender #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla
made it for tumblrs zukkaweek 2025
Absolutely pulled an amalas here by plastering my online name a bunch of time as graffiti tag.
#AvatarTheLastAirbender #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla
So how about those... VHS tapes? Yeah, remember those?
There used to be phones that you had to pay for called "payphones". Hence the name "pay" "phone". Get it?
Television used to be broadcast over the air like radio. Remember FM radio? There was a different thing called "AM radio" too!
There used to be phones that you had to pay for called "payphones". Hence the name "pay" "phone". Get it?
Television used to be broadcast over the air like radio. Remember FM radio? There was a different thing called "AM radio" too!
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
So how about those... VHS tapes? Yeah, remember those?
There used to be phones that you had to pay for called "payphones". Hence the name "pay" "phone". Get it?
Television used to be broadcast over the air like radio. Remember FM radio? There was a different thing called "AM radio" too!
There used to be phones that you had to pay for called "payphones". Hence the name "pay" "phone". Get it?
Television used to be broadcast over the air like radio. Remember FM radio? There was a different thing called "AM radio" too!
In the early 2000s, I had a pretty decent dirtbag cellphone by keeping a pink plastic pager, a refillable phone card, and knowing where all the payphones were in my neighborhood.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
In the early 2000s, I had a pretty decent dirtbag cellphone by keeping a pink plastic pager, a refillable phone card, and knowing where all the payphones were in my neighborhood.
Payphones, party lines and calling cards.
January 9, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Payphones, party lines and calling cards.
No remotes for anything.
Getting your main news from a Newspaper.
George and Lynne.
Keeping 10p for payphones.
Your Mother letting the hem of your trousers down as you got older and the material being the original colour so you had tree rings at the bottom.
Literally, literally meaning literally.
Getting your main news from a Newspaper.
George and Lynne.
Keeping 10p for payphones.
Your Mother letting the hem of your trousers down as you got older and the material being the original colour so you had tree rings at the bottom.
Literally, literally meaning literally.
January 9, 2026 at 11:38 AM
No remotes for anything.
Getting your main news from a Newspaper.
George and Lynne.
Keeping 10p for payphones.
Your Mother letting the hem of your trousers down as you got older and the material being the original colour so you had tree rings at the bottom.
Literally, literally meaning literally.
Getting your main news from a Newspaper.
George and Lynne.
Keeping 10p for payphones.
Your Mother letting the hem of your trousers down as you got older and the material being the original colour so you had tree rings at the bottom.
Literally, literally meaning literally.
Jan 1994: Weekend phone calls ad from BT
(+Phone Calls)
«Now there's no such thing as a distant relative.»
(+Phone Calls)
«Now there's no such thing as a distant relative.»
January 9, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Jan 1994: Weekend phone calls ad from BT
(+Phone Calls)
«Now there's no such thing as a distant relative.»
(+Phone Calls)
«Now there's no such thing as a distant relative.»
A lot of my townie friends had them but I never bothered because why, when if I was at home I had the internet and the landline and in town there were payphones and also the library and school with internet.
January 9, 2026 at 4:32 AM
A lot of my townie friends had them but I never bothered because why, when if I was at home I had the internet and the landline and in town there were payphones and also the library and school with internet.
If you were at the mall and wanted to call a friend, sometimes you would have to wait because there was a line at the payphones.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 AM
If you were at the mall and wanted to call a friend, sometimes you would have to wait because there was a line at the payphones.
(There used to be a hierarchy of phone lines back in the dark old days. Emergency always open circuits, middle tier and low tier. In the UK the always open tier was government comms and payphones.)
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 AM
(There used to be a hierarchy of phone lines back in the dark old days. Emergency always open circuits, middle tier and low tier. In the UK the always open tier was government comms and payphones.)
Payphones -- life without a cell phone.
January 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Payphones -- life without a cell phone.
Vibraphones and payphones: things you don't see around much anymore
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Vibraphones and payphones: things you don't see around much anymore
3) Wrong Number - Payphones
Some bias here, as I know them, but the garagey sound is so cool. This album is short put packs a punch and makes you want to dance. For being only three people, they make so much noise. Really cool stuff
Some bias here, as I know them, but the garagey sound is so cool. This album is short put packs a punch and makes you want to dance. For being only three people, they make so much noise. Really cool stuff
January 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM
3) Wrong Number - Payphones
Some bias here, as I know them, but the garagey sound is so cool. This album is short put packs a punch and makes you want to dance. For being only three people, they make so much noise. Really cool stuff
Some bias here, as I know them, but the garagey sound is so cool. This album is short put packs a punch and makes you want to dance. For being only three people, they make so much noise. Really cool stuff
lol project zomboid youtuber explaining pagers to young people, then explaining payphones from the explanation, then explaining "yeah so we used to carry coins" from the payphone explanation
January 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
lol project zomboid youtuber explaining pagers to young people, then explaining payphones from the explanation, then explaining "yeah so we used to carry coins" from the payphone explanation
The three repurposed payphones, with free VoIP calling, are part of the nonprofit’s effort to give city residents without cellphones access to phone service.
rochesterbeacon.com/2026/01/06/t...
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The Good Phone Project adds more free payphones - Rochester Beacon
The three repurposed payphones, with free VoIP calling, are part of the nonprofit’s effort to give city residents without cellphones access to phone service.
rochesterbeacon.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The three repurposed payphones, with free VoIP calling, are part of the nonprofit’s effort to give city residents without cellphones access to phone service.
rochesterbeacon.com/2026/01/06/t...
rochesterbeacon.com/2026/01/06/t...
We lost our rural daily bus in 2005. The city wanted to manage the county so the renamed it all Municipality, and they took our bus away, we never got cellular but our elected councilors voted to give Bell Aliant 5 million dollars for WiFi for tourists on road, and they took our payphones out.
January 6, 2026 at 10:47 AM
We lost our rural daily bus in 2005. The city wanted to manage the county so the renamed it all Municipality, and they took our bus away, we never got cellular but our elected councilors voted to give Bell Aliant 5 million dollars for WiFi for tourists on road, and they took our payphones out.