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For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience, here's a primer on how to use a rotary dial telephone. Produced by Big Brother ... I mean, the telephone company ... in the 1930s, the film explained the dial tone and busy signal to consumers used to having the operator connect their calls. Fun fact: AT&T installed the first "automatic phones" in 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia, and removed the last manual phones from the system in 1978.
For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience, here's a primer on how to use a rotary dial telephone. Produced by Big Brother ... I mean, the telephone company ... in the 1930s, the film explained the 
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