The "Touch-tone phone"
Click here for audio Click here for touch tone noises! Welcome to Thought for the Day. Now it was on this day in history 61 years ago that the touch tone phone was rolled out in the USA. If you have no idea about what I’m talking about let me explain. You know that thing you have in your pocket for checking facebook, texting your mum and buying your groceries. It’s called a mobile phone right? Well you probably remember those things called landlines, and some of you may still have one. Going right back in history (and I can remember these, and many of the listeners will be able to as well) phones used to have a big dial on them that you would rotate round to get the right number. The mechanism inside would send the right number of pulses down the line to connect you to the right person. But on this day in November 1963 the touch tone phone was produced. Instead of a pulse, at the push of a button you got sounds like this . You might just remember them from your dial up mode