Growing up our phone number was JE7-xxxx, and we had a bright yellow rotary in the kitchen with a very long cord.

Then in my teenage years I had a pink Princess phone

My father STILL has an old rotary phone in the TV room. Several years ago I got him a cordless phone for the kitchen, he uses it, but doesn't take it out of the kitchen

I also bought him a thinner, lighter, smaller answering machine - which he STILL doesn't know how to use - and discarded his brick of a answering machine (that old thing weighed a ton, and took up SO much space!)

its tough getting your parents into the 21st century!