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Results: Did You Dial?

Published on 11/06/2019
By: jlrake
2592
Technology
1.
1.
Was the first telephone you ever used a rotary dial model?
Yes
82%
2113 votes
No
13%
328 votes
Undecided
3%
66 votes
Not Applicable
3%
85 votes
2.
2.
If you ever used a rotary dial phone, were you one to keep your finger in the hole corresponding to the digit you were dialing. or did you take your finger out of the hole as the dial rotated back into place?
I kept my fnioger in there.
16%
404 votes
I let it fly without my finger in it.
52%
1337 votes
Sometimes I did one; at other times, I did the other.
20%
523 votes
Not Applicable
13%
328 votes
3.
3.
If you ever used rotary dial telephones, in what decade did you last use one to make a call?
2010's
4%
94 votes
2000's
7%
185 votes
1990's
21%
555 votes
1980's
28%
720 votes
1970's
18%
469 votes
1960's
9%
232 votes
Not Applicable
13%
337 votes
4.
4.
A TV talk show I watch (but more ilsten to than watch,. really) sometimes features shots of the old multi-line dial rotary telephone in the studio while callers into the show are talking. To me, the sight is at once nostalgic and peculiar. How would you respond to seeing seeing such a thing on your TV, computer or smartphone screen?
I'd think it more nostal;gic than peculiar.
37%
969 votes
I'd find it more peculiar than nostalgic.
7%
176 votes
I'd find it both nostalgic and peculiar in about equal measure.
13%
327 votes
I think I'd have another response altogether (and I may share what it is in a comment).
2%
52 votes
I don't think I'd have any response to it in particular.
22%
575 votes
Not Applicable
19%
493 votes
5.
5.
While making a call to my state's Department of Motor Vehicles today, an automated prompt directed me to press either 1 or 2 for the option I'd want. It got me to thinking of how 1)anyone with only a rotary dial phone would manage nowadays and 2)grateful I am for the time saved by pressing digits instead of dialing them. Still, I recall dialing as being kind of fun, too. And you?
I'm grateful for not having to dial, but also think dialing was at least a bit fun.
34%
889 votes
I'm grateful for not having to dial but hold no fond memories of dialing.
17%
452 votes
I'm not thinking one way or another about dialing versis not daling.
25%
648 votes
i've never used a rotary dial telephone.
3%
72 votes
I've never used a telephone.
1%
17 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
20 votes
Not Applicable
19%
494 votes
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