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Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z's nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z's love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My wife insists on us having a landline. She doesn’t know she’s running a SIP phone over the internet connected to a SIP trunk that has a local area number. She’s happy. I get to kill our landline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Australia both internet telephony and mobile are sometimes laggy and garbled. This never happened with landlines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Landlines also still work if cell and internet are out but power isn't in an emergency, which I'd bet is why she wants the landline lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Most available "landlines" nowadays are just VoIP anyway tho. It's why my dad got into ham radio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Huh, TIL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Landlines were self-powered. They did not require mains. But if the blackout was because a tree pulled down the power lines then there was a good chance it pulled down telephone wires too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

cell and internet are out but power isn't

Though true, phones can also go down, I believe the point would be redundancy in case X works but Y does not. Though as someone else mentioned HAM is a better solution anyway, I need to finally get my technician's license.