{"id":3229,"date":"2011-08-15T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T05:47:55","slug":"olde-tyme-techcitement-its-a-telephone-that-looks-like-a-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/olde-tyme-techcitement-its-a-telephone-that-looks-like-a-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Olde Tyme Techcitement: It’s A Telephone That Looks Like A Football!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for <\/em>Olde Tyme Techcitement, when we take a look back at <\/em>technology <\/em>relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Football’s always been an impenetrable sport to me. As a marching band geek, I went to every single football game in high school, often wondering how my classmates on the field understood what was going on out there. (We had an 0-11 record my freshman year, so maybe they were as confused as I was.) Even today, it still just looks like a bunch of men running around and jumping on each other.<\/p>\n

It was about this time, 1988 – 1990, that Sports Illustrated introduced the football phone. That, I understood in an instant. It was a telephone<\/em> that looked like a football<\/em>! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!<\/p>\n

Everyone wanted a football phone. Everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I never did get that football phone. My family didn’t subscribe to Sports Illustrated<\/em> and I had no particular use for the 1991 Swimsuit Issue. Christmas came and went with no free gift card under the tree, and I quickly moved on to other things.<\/p>\n

But I marvel to this day at how this ingenious device captured a nation’s imagination, standing above all the other novelty telephonic equipment on the market, almost a precursor to the variety of devices we take for granted today.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Ickey Shuffle<\/a> captured the nation’s imagination at about the same time, so maybe our imaginations were easy pickings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a telephone that looked like a football! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,905,908,489],"tags":[918,1039,1046,851,1047,1038,1045,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}