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This interesting bit of pop-culture awareness is from the July 8, 2025 Tulsa World.

And what a legacy, huh?  You kiddies don't recall things like:

• rotary phones and party lines
• dialing a zero to talk to an operator for help or for them to tell you a phone number
• answering the phone to an operator asking you whether you would accept a collect call from someone else
• dialing zero plus the phone number and when your party answered, an operator would ask the other person if they would accept a collect call from YOU
• waiting for evening when the phone rates were cheaper before making long-distance calls
• LATER ON ... cell-phone carriers competing for how cheap EACH MINUTE was.  (I remember a boss telling me in the 1990s that anything more than ten cents a minute was excessive.)
• Pretending your flip-open phone was a STAR TREK communicator
• Checking your phone screen for bars (that is, coverage)
• Your cellphone not working inside a metal-roofed building .... 

Are YOU old enough to recall the cellphone revolution?  Talk amongst yourselves until you come back here Thursday!