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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by noir_lord on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:57PM (#24862654)
Iirc it goes back to telegraphs, the line been physically down would prevent them working and it’s hung around since.

Like hang up, when was the last time I hung up a phone, that style of phone went out of fashion here 30 or more years ago.

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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by jacobush on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:26PM (#24862927)
Ackshully it's from the even older phones with separate earpiece and fixed microphone. You'd really hang up the earpiece on these old ones.
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by mcphage on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:56PM (#24863209)
You'd physically hang up wall phones, even when they had a combined microphone and speaker: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515Mj67cq3L...
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Re:I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API by jacobush on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:30PM (#24863504)
Yes, but what I meant was that the expression is likely even older than from the ones which went out of style 30 years ago.
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