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Dial Tone (lemm.ee)
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Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My office phone has a dial tone. It's VOIP but when you pick up the receiver it BOOOOOOOPs... So I think it was last week I heard one...

Hopefully not for the last time...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same for the R2D2-56k gatekeeper of the internet; master of the slow reveal.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hate you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly my parents’ new IP phone service uses the dialtone as some kind of branding trick - you go off-hook and get this “designed” audio prompt that slides into a normal dialtone, presumably to make you remember you’re not just using “the phone”. It was very disconcerting when I first heard it.

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