Reminds me of the [tin can](https://tincan.kids/). Don't have one yet, but hope they stick around so I can get one for my kids when they get a little older.
These articles are a complete waste of time. They cherry-pick examples from a literal handful of people and declare "Old thing is new again!" and people upvote it here like it's at all based in reality.
This is just like the "Teens are starting to use flip phones" or "Teens are starting to use paper maps" BS stories we've also seen on HN.
It's the laziest form of "journalism", it's just clickbait trash. A handful of people is not a trend. Please stop upvoting this nonsense.
I actually just got rid of my landline (most recently a VOIP line) after having one for maybe 40 years (in one form or another). I am so late to the party that the thing I thought was old is now new again.
I love collecting vintage computers and phones, so I use an ATA to allow me to connect them to a "landline." I use voip.ms, and I keep a little bit of money in there. Mostly, so I can show my friends that my rotary phone actually works! Surprisingly, I haven't got spam calls on that line (yet).
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadThis is just like the "Teens are starting to use flip phones" or "Teens are starting to use paper maps" BS stories we've also seen on HN.
It's the laziest form of "journalism", it's just clickbait trash. A handful of people is not a trend. Please stop upvoting this nonsense.
It was ringing non-stop with phone scams and telemarketers.