you can still buy rotary phones (BoldOldPhones is one site that specializes in them). Despite being a relic from the past, we still hear phrases like “dial 911” and I have to wonder how long ...

is that rapid numeric keying is not what this rotary dial numpad keyboard is all about. In fact, it’s actually an April Fool’s prank [Squidgeefish] played on a retro-phone-obsessed coworker ...

A frustrated Justine Haupt came up with an unorthodox solution: she designed and built a mobile phone with a rotary dial that looks like it's 40 years old. There's an entire generation that ...

Introduced in the early 1900s, rotary phones were commonly used from the 1920s until the 1960s, when dial phones were gradually replaced with push button phones (see Touch-Tone). THIS DEFINITION ...

For those of you who’ve never seen (or even heard) about a rotary dial phone, it was a telephone that had a circular dial with holes in it that corresponded to the different numbers. When this ...

then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the demographics of a vanishing breed of landline ...