I remember when touch tone first came out, you had to pay extra to have it working. Needless to say I was not going to pay extra so I had rotary dial phones for the longest time. Now, unless you have an old school POTS line on a copper pair, only touch tone works!
My handwriting was so bad when I was a kid that my mom was concerned, and met with the elementary school principal about it. Her answer: “Bob really likes machines, have him take typewriting when he gets to Jr. High next year”. Now this was back in 1960, long before the age of home computers! How little did she know that being able to touch-type would be a useful skill for everyone in the future.
Yes, the CALM act was passed regulating the volume of commercials, and broadcast engineers are still trying to figure out how to implement it, since commercial production houses produce the advertisments as loud as they can.
Yep. Wild turkeys would be extinct by now if they were as dumb as domesticated turkeys