The 1970s called and they want their rotary dial cell phone back. Looking for all the world like something assembled from the Radio Shack parts department – remember when Radio Shack sold parts?

And even if they are, they don’t require a rotary phone hooked up to nothing. But those who believe in wind phones say there is something to having this physical device as a tool. And for those ...

If you have the urge for some retro decor, you can still buy rotary phones (BoldOldPhones is one site that specializes in them). Despite being a relic from the past, we still hear phrases like ...

the dial itself was salvaged from a Western Electric Trimline telephone which featured hardware that was more compact than ...

A rotating number selector on early telephones (and TVs). Introduced in the early 1900s, rotary phones were commonly used from the 1920s until the 1960s, when dial phones were gradually replaced ...

And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone ... before it was replaced by generations of touch tone phones, cordless phones, cellphones. “They used to have volume ...