{"id":1961,"date":"2016-02-10T16:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:45:01","slug":"phun-rejected-by-7-different-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/phun-rejected-by-7-different-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Phun: &#8220;Rejected by 7 Different Technologies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since answering machines had such an important role before voicemail, and even when voicemail began in commercial markets in the mid 1980s, it was designed almost as a <a href=\"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/01\/exclusive-profile-of-the-voice-of-audix\/\">fancy answering machine<\/a>\u00a0and it&#8217;s Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, <strong>why don&#8217;t we just have some fun<\/strong> and quote movies like <i>He&#8217;s Just Not That Into You\u00a0<\/i>and relive the days of romantic rejections 25 years ago<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rejected by 7 Different Technologies\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0gGXylVz6KI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We could probably all relate being rejected by the different portals, but if you&#8217;re a phone guy or an IT gal, and you&#8217;re a certain age, you could relate to Mary (played by Drew Barrymore.) Her dramatic reminiscing was so great!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I miss the days where you had one phone number and one answering machine and that one answering machine housed that one cassette tape and that one cassette tape ether had a message from the guy or it didn&#8217;t. And\u00a0now you just have to go around checking all these different portals to just get rejected by seven different technologies. [sighs]. It&#8217;s just &#8211; exhausting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since answering machines had such an important role before voicemail, and even when voicemail began in commercial markets in the mid 1980s, it was designed almost as a fancy answering machine\u00a0and it&#8217;s Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, why don&#8217;t we just have&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/phun-rejected-by-7-different-technologies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,439,597,746,783,977,994],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-answering-machines","tag-hes-just-not-that-into-you","tag-messaging","tag-phun","tag-rejected-by-7-different-technologies","tag-video","tag-voicemail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}