GREENSBORO, N.C. — I posted on Facebook recently an image of this old rotary phone I bought online. Then I proceeded to say that I had Googled for a while and figured out how to make that relic work ...

The more glass we punch with our fingertips, the more we miss fun physical interfaces like the rotary phone. Sure, they took forever to dial, and you did not want to be one of those kids stuck with ...

The Jetsons got a lot right. Flying cars are now a reality. Zoom meetings. Robot vacuum cleaners. And video phones. One thing that was absent from that cartoon show was something that’s been around ...

We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — ...

Seventeen-year-old cousins Jake and Kyle Bumstead were tasked with learning how to use a rotary phone in four minutes, but they couldn’t quite get the hang of it in time.Kevin Bumstead, of Chicago, ...

Seventeen-year-old cousins Jake and Kyle Bumstead were tasked with learning how to use a rotary phone in four minutes, but they couldn’t quite get the hang of it in time.Kevin Bumstead, of Chicago, ...