The landline phone is making a comeback and your brain will thank you

Photo credit: Markus Winkler via Unsplash. Article by Alice Porter. Mashable – November 13, 2025.

There’s so much nostalgia for ’90s and early 2000s culture right now. Part of that is because of the novelty of analogue forms of communication. After all, keeping up with your WhatsApp group chat, scrolling for the appropriate emoji just doesn’t feel as chic as calling up your friend on a landline, twirling the cord around your finger à la Carrie Bradshaw. But the idea of relying on a plug-in telephone to communicate with anyone outside your home feels practically ancient. After all, the landline is completely unnecessary in the age of the smartphone. At least, it was. Now, young people are turning to it as a way to cure their smartphone obsessions. […]

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