The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • sunbeam60
    7·
    10 months ago

    My wife insists on us having a landline. She doesn’t know she’s running a SIP phone over the internet connected to a SIP trunk that has a local area number. She’s happy. I get to kill our landline.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      1·
      10 months ago

      In Australia both internet telephony and mobile are sometimes laggy and garbled. This never happened with landlines.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        10 months ago

        Landlines also still work if cell and internet are out but power isn’t in an emergency, which I’d bet is why she wants the landline lol.

        • M. Orange@beehaw.org
          2·
          10 months ago

          Most available “landlines” nowadays are just VoIP anyway tho. It’s why my dad got into ham radio.

        • sqgl@beehaw.org
          1·
          10 months ago

          Landlines were self-powered. They did not require mains. But if the blackout was because a tree pulled down the power lines then there was a good chance it pulled down telephone wires too.

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            10 months ago

            cell and internet are out but power isn’t

            Though true, phones can also go down, I believe the point would be redundancy in case X works but Y does not. Though as someone else mentioned HAM is a better solution anyway, I need to finally get my technician’s license.