The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

  • neocamel@lemmy.studio
    4·
    10 months ago

    Man there’s something about talking on a cell phone that makes me feel like I have to yell, and thus, hate talking on them.

    As I remember land lines, they never felt that way.

    • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      Probably positioning. Land lines generally went the length of your whole face. The mic was angled and right in front of your mouth.