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.

  • sqgl@beehaw.org
    1·
    9 months ago

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

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      9 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·
        9 months ago

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

      • sqgl@beehaw.org
        1·
        9 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
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          9 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.