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Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Dial tone still exists. Pretty much every business phone that’s most likely a VoIP line still generates dial tone to the user’s headset.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Man, reading this sentence felt like a little electric jolt to the brain as it pieced the memes together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If it’s not grown in the POTS region of Bell then it’s not dialtone, it’s just sparkling doot .

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Indeed, but most people will not hear it anymore as they don't use business phones, same as ordinary landline phones

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You can pick up a payphone anywhere that still has them and most of them will play a dial tone, though those are starting to dwindle.