If you have the urge for some retro decor, 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 ...

In a world where smartphones and streaming services dominate, I’ve found myself drawn back to the technology of my parents ...

And even if they are, they don’t require a rotary phone hooked up to nothing. But those who believe in wind phones say there is something to having this physical device as a tool. And for those ...

That doesn’t mean that wired phones are no longer of interest to a hardware hacker though, and many of us have at times experimented with these obsolete instruments. At the recent 37C3 event in ...

People are encouraged to feel how heavy cameras used to be, before they were a regular component on our cell phones. For some the Extinct Media Museum offers a nostalgic blast from the past ...

While much better than the rotary dial, these dial tones were subject ... we all just use our cell phones voicemail. Released in 1984, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially ...