GREENSBORO, N.C. — I posted on Facebook recently an image of this old rotary phone I bought online. Then I proceeded to say that I had Googled for a while and figured out how to make that relic work ...

The Jetsons got a lot right. Flying cars are now a reality. Zoom meetings. Robot vacuum cleaners. And video phones. One thing that was absent from that cartoon show was something that’s been around ...

Rotary dial phones have a certain romantic charm about them; something never quite captured in the post-Touch Tone era. With landline phone services less popular than ever, these old workhorses aren’t ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

As convenient as modern cellphones are, there's a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call -- and now, there's a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven ...

There’s something special about growing up in a world of rotary phones and VHS tapes. It might not seem like it, but it equipped us with some unique skills. You see, in an era before smartphones and ...

The Rotary Un-Smartphone — Haupt has always wanted to share the love with this project, making her process open-source from the jump. As you can see in her full build video, however, the average ...

Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...