Re: CHAT: postcodes

taliesin wrote:
>
>The mid nineties marked the beginning of the cell phone epidemic
>in my country. They were being sold for 1 NOK (~ 15 cents?) a piece,
>and suddenly "everyone" had one. Now children (12 and older) are
>*expected* by their peers to have one, which is nuts. I was lucky
>to live my childhood/teenage years early enough to avoid that mess.
When the aforementioned craze began about the same time in Sweden, I swore
that I'd buy one when I felt I needed one (as opposed to because my
classmates telling me I couldn't live without one). Finally, last autumn
(when I was 19) my parents gave me one cause they wanted me to be able to
call them from uni (thanks to mobile phones, public phones are now mostly a
thing of distant history). Now, I'm afraid I'm addicted ...

> > My phone is rotory dial, for what it's worth.
>
>Wow, haven't seen one 'a those since the eighties! Neat!
>
>Hang on to it a while more and it'll be legible for a museum, and
>I'm not kidding! The old "grey" rotary phones that were everywhere
>during my childhood are only found in museums and retro-shops now.
Got one at home. It's been around for as far as I can remember, which means
from the mid-late 80s at least.

                                                Andreas

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