Until about 6 months ago, there was an avocado green rotary dial telephone in the spare bedroom at my mom and dad's house. It even had the "word" phone sticker on it - remember those? In my case, growing up it was "GU-4" for Gunderson, but I don't know how they came up with the words. When my youngest niece was able to dial a push button phone, they were visiting grandma and granddad. My niece needed to phone her best friend. She went into the spare bedroom, took one look at the phone and said "How do you use this thing?" (Grandma and granddad have a cordless phone in the kitchen by the way) Back in the day the telephone came from the telephone company - you didn't go purchase one. I also remember when Illinois Bell used to charge more for service if you had a touch tone phone. The green phone has been replaced with a little push button phone, one that's not cordless. But we still laugh over "How do you use this thing?!" even though my niece gets so embarrassed when we tell the story!