Back in “the day”, telephones were made up of a round speaker connected to a round microphone via a handle. To call someone, you picked up the “handset” from the “receiver” and “dialed” the number. The reason we still use that term today is because the apparatus for inputting our contact’s phone number was a round dial. You’d stick your finger in the hole that represented the number you wanted, rotate the dial until it stopped, pull out your finger, and wait while it returned back to the starting position.This wasn’t such a ...
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