More on telephones

Heh. I commented earlier about the end of the tax on long distance phone calls.

Well, Joe Powell raised an interesting, if tenuously related, question:

I noticed in a movie from 1989 that a character was speaking to someone thru a device that was a heavy-looking rectangle of black with a curly cord attached to one end ... and I thought, how many people have never used a phone with one of those unmanageable loops of cord connecting a handset to a base?

I really don't want to turn into one of those "when I was your age" guys, but it's hard not to when you think of stuff like this. I have a close friend whose kids are growing up in a household without a landline telephone at all.

Well, when I was their age....