1072 Linda Uses a Machine to Call Her Dad

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Sesame Maniac

Жыл бұрын

From 1977, interesting how advanced technology has become..

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@raea3588 8 ай бұрын

Today, we not only have to explain what a TTY is we have to explain what Bob's rotary phone was 🤭Eventually, people who didn't have a TTY could communicate with someone who did through an operator that works as an interpreter of what's being written and then spoken over the phone. It's called the telephone relay service and it is still used.

@Garrettk41 Жыл бұрын

Nice little set of scenes. Oh, the evolution of communication.

@mollylea2643 4 ай бұрын

I was reading that some Deaf people actually learned about the TTY for the first time watching the show with their kids.

@gsnfan Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this when it originally aired. This was quite a contraption at the time. A early kind of texting.

@OofusTwillip Жыл бұрын

An early TTY machine!

@ThirdOfJune4444 Жыл бұрын

The first Facebook Messenger

@jasminnemcdonald94A Жыл бұрын

How come no one taught sign language to children in School??

@andresbustamante4777 Жыл бұрын

David almost forgot to say sesame street was brought to you

@SweetHeartHolly1982 Жыл бұрын

This may be a dumb question, but I'd love to know if a machine like this is still used at all. God bless you always!!! Holly in east TN

@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety Жыл бұрын

I doubt this machine is still used, when everyone can text now.

@NicholasMoreau Жыл бұрын

At least in Canada, there are still pay phones in major transit hubs with this attached. But that’s just a remnant of the early 2000s when they were introduced locally. (I think early 2000s, my memory of it is vague.)

@NicholasMoreau Жыл бұрын

There is a TTY mode on cell phones, so you can essentially text to someone with one of the physical devices on a land line. But it’s indeed increasingly uncommon.

@kristopherchristman 11 ай бұрын

I can vouch that these devices are still usable in some form. My one friend still uses one of these regularly. Even still uses calculator like displays like this one. He texts but he's used one of these for so long it's just what he prefers. You can also call a special number that will act as a middleman if you wanted to, so what my friend types gets spoken to me by the operator, and what I say the operator types to my friend on my behalf. But I don't do that myself, I just call him directly with my device when I want to chat with him.

@homosoftommorow 8 ай бұрын

It's not a device like this but TTY technology has transferred to the phones we have now. Plus deaf folks can video chat and sign as well as there's a resource where folks can have an interpretor apart of their video chat but I forget what it's called

@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 Жыл бұрын

4:42 hope those calls were local. 😐

@cristyrodas Жыл бұрын

R.I.P Bob McGrath!!!🕊

@princess_ama Жыл бұрын

The letter sponsors for this episode were S and W, and CTW was renamed Sesame Workshop (SW) over 20 years later.

@OofusTwillip Жыл бұрын

S&W is also a brand of canned fruits and juices, since 1896. It's short for Sussman & Wormser.

@Himegw Жыл бұрын

What year is that? Late 70s???

@suffix345 Жыл бұрын

1977

@lydiajohn77 Жыл бұрын

This was so cool and well ahead of its time

@DaveFisher-cq2dr Жыл бұрын

a great invention for deaf people, long before Facebook was invented

@JenniferEnnett 8 ай бұрын

Yes

@nathangorman4600 Жыл бұрын

Nowadays, people who are deaf can talk to people on the iPhone by texting. You deaf people out there can read what I just said, can you?😄😄😄 Just kidding! I know you can.

@kevinraymcgaugh7164 6 ай бұрын

That’s a nice 👍 TTY

@triciabuenaluz6438 Жыл бұрын

When people were nicer and life simpler.

@DaveFisher-cq2dr Жыл бұрын

I doubt that people were ever nicer in any time

@carmensandiego328 3 ай бұрын

@@DaveFisher-cq2drain’t that the truth. The only place where it was ever a happy place was Sesame Street. I miss the good old days.

@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 Жыл бұрын

Bet they didn’t sell many of those. 😐 $3,000.

@aimeewigton1453 Жыл бұрын

You could see him calculating the phone bill Did she not have a phone in her house ir did she live with bob

@00zarzu00 Жыл бұрын

no phone

@sesamestreetclassicmusican2278 Жыл бұрын

🥰😍🥰

@TheMSW1291 Жыл бұрын

Is that Linda's first appearance on the street???

@sesamemaniac855 Жыл бұрын

Oh not at all. She made her first appearance in 1971

@mcwooley Жыл бұрын

How long ago was this? 45 years yet? Must have been pretty cool! But we still have some way to go; smart devices still don't have any tactile display Unless you count the rumble feature, which MAY be able to read dits and dahs to deaf-blind people at about 3 words per minute My point is, our devices need something more like Tacttoo and/or Braibook built in (as well as transflective screens that don't damage vision) When dealing with modern tech companies, I hope you will ask them to be more considerate of people who are differently abled Thursday, February 9, 2023 CE, 23:55 EST