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[Niya]

Before that an installer brought them to you. That seems to have persisted until modular jacks were considered ubiquitous after many years of transition from hard wiring.

Wow really? Well that had to be a thing long before I was born because I know nothing about this.

Now to be fair, when I got married in 1980 we never had a rotary phone. Somewhere around 1978 or so there was no cost savings any more.

I was lucky enough to actually have used one in my lifetime. When I was a child we had one, however by that time push button phones were the standard. My best guess is that the rotary phone was an old "hand-me-down" that managed to stick around and end up in our household. I have never seen anybody else with one. Don't know what became of it though. I haven't seen it in like 30 years or any other for that matter.