InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat is the most useless fact you know?message-squaremessage-square55linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most useless fact you know?InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square55linkfedilink
minus-squareDeestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 month agoIf presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 month agoUsed to do this in payphones as a kid. The numpads were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing. But pulse dialing still worked.
minus-squareDeestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoI am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in. Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOften the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.
If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
Used to do this in payphones as a kid. The numpads were disabled when no coins were inserted, effectively disabling tone dialing. But pulse dialing still worked.
I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.
Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
Often the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.
Yeah, you’d have to change the plug.