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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was your father a Navy vet? The Navy has/(had?) voice powered phones on the ships, so that was literally how it worked. The farther away the other phone was, the louder you had to shout.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. He wasn't in the navy but his first job was passing tools to telecoms engineers in the 60s. Maybe they were using something similar...