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?

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 ...

Introduced in the early 1900s, rotary phones were commonly used from the 1920s until the 1960s, when dial phones were gradually replaced with push button phones (see Touch-Tone). THIS DEFINITION ...

Many of us still remember rotary dial phones, even though they fell out of fashion decades ago. These seemingly obsolete telephones might seem helpful for nothing more than paperweights ...