Did you have landlines? I want my kid to just walk over to his friend's place whenever he wants, but while most parents are coming around to having kids without cellphones they all live in extremely un-walkable neighborhoods.

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pixelready 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m seeing more retro-style tech spring up for kids. We just got one of these for the kiddo: https://tincan.kids/ and have found out several other parents have them so there’s a small but growing network of kid landlines forming.

	▲	bitwize 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even without purpose-built things like TinCan, most "landlines" these days... aren't. My parents' house is wired for telephony, but the backhaul is 5G. A box in the house serves as the uplink between the 5G network and the "landline" phones throughout the house.

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komodo99 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For some reason I read "landmines", and wondered what lengths we're reaching to defend our domestic spaces... Glitter bomb landmines anyone?

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28304283409234 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No but we did have a 'house phone': a mobile phone that would always be in the house and anyone could use. Shared whatsapp for playdates.