https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=71.177.151.10explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-14T08:25:50ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1072:_Seventies&diff=25942Talk:1072: Seventies2013-01-22T04:56:29Z<p>71.177.151.10: </p>
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<div>Can someone comment on the S-es in image's title text? I can read it, but don't know what they mean. Probably some old spelling.<br />
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Done [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 16:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s<br />
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Answering machines certainly had been invented by the 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answering_machine). The first practical commercial models started appearing in the 1960s and I had one that used an endless reel of magnetic tape in the 70s. [[User:Jonat|Jonat]] ([[User talk:Jonat|talk]]) 16:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Touch tone phones were certainly around in 1974, although dial phones were still prevalent. Touch Tone dialing was introduced in the late 60s (it was a sufficient novelty that if you visited someone with TouchTone, they'd show it off) The "press 1" aspect came much later, with automatic voice response (AVR) systems, probably mid 80s, although dial phones were still in use ("or wait to be connected to an operator"). As noted by Jonat, answering machines with cassettes, loops, or reel to reel tapes were quite common in the 70s, as a result of the Carterfone decision allowing interconnection to the public switched system in the US.[[Special:Contributions/71.177.151.10|71.177.151.10]] 04:56, 22 January 2013 (UTC)Jim Lux</div>71.177.151.10