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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Dial Tone (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Dial tone still exists. Pretty much every business phone that’s most likely a VoIP line still generates dial tone to the user’s headset.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s just sparkling doot

[–] kakes 8 points 2 months ago

Man, reading this sentence felt like a little electric jolt to the brain as it pieced the memes together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Indeed, but most people will not hear it anymore as they don't use business phones, same as ordinary landline phones

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can pick up a payphone anywhere that still has them and most of them will play a dial tone, though those are starting to dwindle.