How old are you?

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@galacticstone that’s a good poll!

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@galacticstone I'm so old, I've used a payphone (in rural Scotland) which still had button A and button B!

[itsmemariamarie@mastodon.social]

@galacticstone i saw a rotary phone from a friend's house..i was amazed by it....

[galacticstone@mastodon.social]

@Wyatt_H_Knott

She's a very phreaky girl
The kind that knows all her box tones
She'll never pay for long distance tolls
Once she does the Blue Box phreak

[ericg@beige.party]

@galacticstone I've used a payphone with no dial where you drop in a nickel and it connects you to the operator to place the call.

[alien@mastodon.green]

@galacticstone I'm 30 but I've used all of them.

Rotatory in my grandma's
Payphone while camping as a kid
Payphone sliding a card in my edgy teen times.

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@galacticstone

While I understand what you're going for here, I suspect asking this question on the fediverse is going to skew the results somewhat.

Like, I am sure there are folks here who would drive two hours out of their way to use a rotary pay phone.

[galacticstone@mastodon.social]

@IrrationalMethod The results are definitely going to be skewed.

It's funny to me, because when I first found the Fedi and Mastodon back in 2018, I operated under the mistaken assumption that the demographic here is much younger than me (I'm 56).

Over time, I discovered that many Mastodonians are my age or older.

There are far more AARP members here than I originally thought. 🤪

[montar@kolektiva.social]

@galacticstone What about "just old enough to see a touch-dial payphone in my village but it got torn down before i was old enough to use it"?

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@galacticstone @rysiek and I still have a card for one somewhere - my mate was an amateur photographer and won a competition to get their picture on a card whilst we were in school.

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@galacticstone

Tiktok: "look at this cool thing I found in the back of this restaurant, it's like an old cell phone, but it's mounted to the wall, it only makes calls and you share it with other people!"

Reddit: "help, wtf is this thing?"

Mastodon: "oh cool. That's the unique one that was made by Western Electric to supports both pulse dialing and tone dialing depending on the jumper behind the keypad. The logo is for a phone company that went bankrupt after 3 months and is now part of Verizon. I have three of them in my living room."

Facebook: "oh the good old days! I still can't believe Obama banned payphones!"

[paulnickson@mastodon.social]

@NormanDunbar @galacticstone I remember those! Bugger, that’s given the game away. ALRIGHT I’M OLD!!

[lnklnx@social.lnklnx.com]

@galacticstone "Babe, wake up, a new age check just dropped."

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@galacticstone

All of these users are middle-aged millennials, at least in my head, but the age doesn't matter.

I have used a touch tone payphone, but it was never a regular part of my life.

(I am a middle aged millennial, but I don't have any pay phones in my living room - I am fairly certain I have more than one mutual here who does.)

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@IrrationalMethod

Would you like to purchase a pay phone? I have one.

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@HopelessDemigod

No.

Nope.

Certainly not.

I have enough hobbies already.

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@HopelessDemigod

Is it in your living room?

[stripey@meow.social]

@IrrationalMethod @galacticstone I have got only one, and it's in the breakfast nook

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@IrrationalMethod

It’s in the kitchen.

[irrationalmethod@social.coop]

@HopelessDemigod

This decreases my confidence that I have more than one mutual with a pay phone in their living room, but I still put the probability at >50%.