So enamoured with this marvel of communication was I that for my third birthday, I asked for and received a toy version of our family’s rotary dial phone. The short-lived Calgary hangout’s calling card was a landline phone at each table where you rang up your fellow diners, a kind of analog version of today’s dating apps. They may have seen a rotary dial phone on the hit TV series Stranger Things , but might be stumped by how to operate one. In other words, even if you still covet your landline phone, it won’t be the same, ever again. Growing social anxietySpeaking of Gen Alpha, most wouldn’t know how to operate a rotary dial phone if their lives depended on it.

Source: National Post December 31, 2025 19:05 UTC