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once humanity's main link, now the most aggressive thing you can do to a millennial
means The plural of a phone call, or instances of contacting someone by voice over a phone or device.
from From the verb 'call,' which traces back to Old Norse 'kalla' (to cry out, summon), a cousin of Old English 'ceallian.' For most of its life it meant shouting or summoning across a distance — fitting, since the telephone simply took that ancient act of hollering for someone and stretched it across wires.
- voicemail dread
- Most people never check theirs anymore
- original network
- Bell's first call summoned his assistant nearby
- phone fear
- Telephobia is a recognized form of social anxiety
- text first
- "Why didn't you just text" became a generation's motto
- hold music
- Designed to make waiting feel shorter, rarely does
for instance
the louisiana purchase call — thomas jefferson's authorization to negotiate land purchase from france in 1803, 828,000 square miles