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Showerthoughts

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Dial Tone (lemm.ee)
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Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if you have tinnitus it never really stopped

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Sorry to nitpick... Tinnitus is more likely to introduce high-frequency sound than the 440Hz dial tone. If anything, that is the one frequency that old-timey phone techs would eventually struggle to hear...