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The Dial Comes To Town

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What it is

A 1940 Bell Telephone educational short teaching customers how to use their new dial phones and why the change was happening. It is a period piece about rolling out a new technology to ordinary people.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a charming example of the effort once made to teach the public a new technology, in threads about phones and teaching seniors.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “here is a 1940 educational movie by Bell Telephone they made to teach customers about this new technology”

    1940 Bell Telephone film teaching customers to use dial phones

    tzs, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones”

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Topics: rotary phone, bell system, 1940, instructional film, dial service

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