15 Things About The Telephone You Will (Probably) Never Experience Again

Remember *69? I can't believe that existed.

1. Landlines. There's seriously no reason to have one. If you still have one, are you using it as a decor statement?

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2. Screen a call on your answering machine.

Do young people even know what "screening a call" is?!

3. Wait for a couple minutes for the tape on your answering machine to rewind before listening to your messages. If you're standing there for a while, you got mad messages.

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4. Dial *69 to find out who last called you.

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5. Use the Yellow Pages...seriously why are these always showing up on my doorstep?

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6. Tell MCI to cut the phone calls. RIP MCI.

7. Dial 411. I mean, you can. But there's a reason God made 3G.

8. Dial "0" on your phone for an operator. Maybe this still exists from landlines. I'm too afraid to try it.

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9. Have two separate carriers—one for long distance, one for local.

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10. Dial one of these numbers before a call because they supposedly made your call cheaper?

11. Use the pay phone at school because obviously everyone has a cell phone.

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12. Freak out over your minutes running out. Not even your best friend is using your phone.

13. Pay more for a phone call you make a couple states over.

14. Get that annoying BEEP BEEP BEEP when someone's line is busy and they don't have call waiting.

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15. Have a separate caller ID machine. And be so excited about getting caller ID: definitely never gonna happen again.

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