Technologies I thought my son would never use

Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by sellyme on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:44PM (#26775011)

> The original prediction was that most people and most businesses would stop using landlines but he concedes his son might still use a landline in an office some day and yet still considers the original prediction to be correct.

For what it's worth I'm 15 years older than his son, and haven't used a landline in over a decade. I'm typing this from my office desk that has a landline phone on it, that as far as I'm aware has never rung.

It's not an unreasonable conclusion to mark that prediction as correct.

EDIT: actually upon closer inspection it appears that the phone on my desk might be VoIP, so I've not only not used a landline phone in a decade, I haven't even seen one.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by asdff on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:26AM (#26776526)

I actually do have a landline. My internet company told me my bill would go up by $10 a month if I dropped the landline service from my internet+landline combo. Welcome to the free market where I have this or DSL. I don't have a phone hooked up to it, nor do I even know the number.

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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by vishnugupta on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:11AM (#26776455)

> For what it's worth I'm 15 years older than his son, and haven't used a landline in over a decade

In a similar boat. Last time I used a landline was about 20 years ago.

In fact, in India the landline has all but vanished.

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