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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by dragonwriter on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:01PM (#12510201)
> Rotary phones are from the 70's and earlier.

The last rotary phone I saw for sale was, I think, in the 1980s, the last one I saw in use was in the 2000s. Its quite possible that someone could be a millennial and have used one (IIRC, we used one in my house until 1986 -- the other phones in the house were touch tone -- and only ditched it because we happened to move.)

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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:23PM (#12511276)
Sure, I remember rotaries hanging out for a while after that, but they were gone most places by the mid-80's in the US. Not to mention those in museums.
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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry by AstralStorm on Friday September 16, 2016 @01:52PM (#12515866)
This is US centric. Rotaries were in use in EU way into middle 90s at least.
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