DIY old-timey Skype phone mod

"Hello, Operator?"
"What d'ya want dude? Are you playing with your new Old-Timey Skype phone mod again? Heh, 'new' Old-Timey"
"I'd like Hillside 5540 please. That's HILLSIDE, DOUBLE FIVE, FOUR OH"
"Do we have to go through this again? You purposely modded that old phone toy so that it could tap into Skype!"
"Hello, are you there? Operator?"
"*Sigh* Fancy some Gears later?"
"Operator?"
" ... "

[Via MAKE]

[Rohit Kapur @ Apr 7th 2007 3:38PM]

lol... The silliest part is that I can totally picture any Engadget editor playing out that conversation in real life!

Thanks, Conrad!

[jvvv @ Apr 7th 2007 4:14PM]

That's what i really like about you guys: the way you write articles :-)

[Alex Cormier @ Apr 7th 2007 4:18PM]

I do not comprehend your humour.

[Richard @ Apr 7th 2007 4:46PM]

I see what you attempted, but it wasn't funny :(

The non italicized parts read like a cheesy advertisement and ruin the write up.

[dtrapp @ Apr 7th 2007 5:23PM]

http://www.heycool.com

HAHA...nice. That phone is pimp

[Tommy @ Apr 7th 2007 6:35PM]

this would be good except for the injunction against them adding new clients

[Jules Lauve @ Apr 7th 2007 7:55PM]

Tommy wrote:
"This would be good except for the injunction against them adding new clients."

Tommy, dude, you need to update your RSS reader.
That's Vonage, not Skype, and actually the injunction is now lifted.

[Urza @ Apr 7th 2007 8:22PM]

That would be great, except I refuse to use skype, and encourge others not to too, ever since that whole crippling their software on AMD thing.
I use Gizmo instead. Though I suppose this would probably work with that too.

[G$ @ Apr 9th 2007 10:48AM]

Not to mention the closed and proprietary nature of the Skype protocol, which keeps me from ever using Skype and also encouraging others not to. The Gizmo project (http://gizmoproject.com/) is a good alternative.

[strider_mt2k @ Apr 8th 2007 10:42AM]

Uh, hello Mert?

[KC @ Apr 8th 2007 4:04PM]

Sort of funny... except it's "Olde Tyme" not "Old Timey". :^\

[Jim @ Apr 9th 2007 1:51AM]

I think MAKE got the old-time telephone number pattern wrong: they are missing a digit. Remember that song Pennsylvania 6-5000? The word at the beginning of the telephone number represented just the first two digits, you still needed five more digits, not four, to complete the standard seven digit telephone number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names

[Jim @ Apr 9th 2007 1:55AM]

My bad. I didn't read the whole Wiki article I quoted ;-( ! So they did use some 3 letter 4 digit numbers, but anyways the PE6-5000 song made me think to look it up. Learn something new everyday.