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[hananc@tooot.im]

@neil my mother was a (human) telephone operator. so, although I didn't speak to her as a telephone operator, we talked.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@aadeacon I am not 75, and have done all of those things!

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@neil

New Mastodon Poll Reveals 87% of Mastodonians Are Old AF

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@neil

What I’m learning is that I am likely to crumble to dust soon.

[k8quinn@social.vivaldi.net]

@neil

I not only spoke to a telephone operator, I WAS one (at a car dealership). So was my wife - that's where we met.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@neil all but the phone card and exchange

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@neil wait does the phone card one mean the type for payphones, or does it include cards used to top up PAYG mobile phones? cos I definitely used the latter.

[derickr@phpc.social]

@neil You could just have asked how old we are

[theforeignagent@social.taker.fr]

@neil I did all, Am I so old 🤪

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@gsuberland Ooh, good clarification. I was meaning in the context of a payphone here.

[rhube@wandering.shop]

@neil Most of these. Not sure about the phone card. I don't *think* so, but I'm not entirely sure.

I've talked to operators but I don't think been routed from one system to another, unless this includes dialling 9 to dial out, or being forwarded by a receptionist?

Never received a phone call in a phone booth, but used to use them regularly to call parents as a child and teenager.

[sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social]

@neil all of the above

[nrmacdonald@mastodon.social]

@neil
My auntie was a switchboard operator on a joint operations air base during The War, she had to speak English AND American.

[bradley@techhub.social]

@neil ha unfortunately I still remember my ATT phone card number

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@neil I have also used a pay phone on a train.

[damien@layer8.space]

@neil used a telephone book for which purpose?

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@sarahjamielewis Well there's a surprise

[aimaz@mstdn.social]

@neil I am curious what it means to dial from one exchange to another.

I probably only called local numbers as a kid and dialing other areas when I was older was always just preceding the number with a 4 or 5 digit area code, did it work differently before?

[ceciliabell@mastodon.social]

@neil Yes to all, plus for a summer I actually was a (human) telephone operator. Those overnight shifts were something else.

[ska@social.treehouse.systems]

@neil this is just an age test. No need to be cruel.