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ButterflyBlood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 12:40 AM Original message |
Was the term "voicemail" commonly used in the early 90s? |
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Rochester (486 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 02:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. Probably just a marketing term by the phone companies... |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. I know the term was around in the 80's and maybe earlier |
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OriginalGeek (589 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 09:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. You are correct! |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yes, because a lot of phone companies offered it as part of landline packages |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 07:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. and ironically the term "landline" was never heard back then |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. I don't remember it from that early. I have to beg to differ with the others. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 11:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I also beg to differ. I only knew the term "answering machine." |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. I know it was a common business term used in the mid-80's |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 04:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. We must've not got that so soon in the south. We had sticky pads. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. We always referred to it as "leave a message on the machine" |
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Lucinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
6. It was in common usage by the 1980's according to wiki |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. Answerphone |
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MadrasT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. Yes. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. The word Voicemail was trademarked in 1979 |
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BrendaBrick (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
14. I remember that it all started with beepers |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. I remember it from the early 90s with businesses and so on |
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