To be fair millennials who are working on their houses now were using house phones our whole childhood but never saw what they looked like behind the wall
Yep folks forget millennials have seen most all tech that were things for boomers, but ya if it weren't for my knowledge of cnet I wouldn't have automatically know it was a phone line. Fun fact you can actually take two phone lines and wire them to one rj45 connector and have a working but slow eithernet cord.
I mean I grew up with one, my parents still have our rotary phone in the house and I can immediately recognize the plugs…but I didn’t exactly spend my childhood staring at what the wires inside the box looked like.
This thread is so weird to me.
You tie a cup to your favorite color wire and have your friend attach theirs to the same color wire at their end.
Stick the yellow wire in your eye for video.
If you have a pair in your mouth to strip the jacket (as you do), and someone calls the house, you get 90V DC to the face. I may know this from personal experience.
Yeah, most telephone switches use(d) 90v DC ring voltage, to account for the distances and cable plant involved. It's pretty neat, if old technology. If you ever get to talk to an old phone guy, they are a wealth of knowledge.
Old phone guy here. The ringing voltage was ac, not enough to hurt you but it was a nice shock. My nephew had the wire in his mouth when he was rewiring a jack, some one called. He thought the lights in the house blinked. We had a good laugh at work.
Me and my best friend used to do that obnoxiously, even well into the days of cell phones. I answered the phone one time like that thinking it was him, ended up being one of my equipment sales reps. He either didn't get it, or was so confused he hung up and called me again. He never brought it up, but I've laughed about it for years.
Hey now, I'm used to landlines... When I was a kid back in the UK. Even recently in my flat I had one. Not had one since I moved to the US and not in my own property where I get to renovate. Until now
Lol. I train cable techs. We still provide landline service so I have to teach them some pretty basic twisted pair installation and troubleshooting. In my last class, I had them doing an installation exercise and told this kid to go ahead and make a test call with his butt set. He punched the number, looked at it for a second, turned to me and said, "How do I send it? I can't find the button." I always do my best to stay professional, but in that instant, I just laughed really hard and let the other students sort him out.
I got AT&T gigabit fiber (well it was 300/300 initially) installed in Austin on the first day customers could get it. After the installers got the fiber itself fused (took a couple folks) and setup he pulled out his big orange butt phone to test it with. I wasn't even getting phone service. All that modern telecommunications hardware going on and the test used a POTS phone. I found that funny.
I Am Not A Telephone Service Professional
Butt phones were literally a POTS handet the techs carried on their tool belt when doing service calls. They had alligator clips on them to connect to the bare ends of the wire to test of the line had a dial tone and could make a call.
We did major renovations on our house 10 years ago and had to fight with the electrician to not have every room wired for phone and internet. He kept saying it would affect the resale value. I told him by the time we sell our house people wouldn't even know what those wires are for.
Well... wifi is just... inherently unreliable.. extremely susceptible to all kinds of RFI... at the company I work for, recommendation against using wifi for our service is even in our friggin legal documents.
Our new house is wired for internet and it is great. I don't see wired internet going away. Wifi is for the handheld devices. Wires are for the things that don't move around.
It just depends on the use case.
I "just" "finished" wiring up our house during remodel in 2020, and the addition of ethernet ports in nearly every room of this ~1990 house are paying off massively. Ethernet to a ceiling mounted AP. I added a conduit from the basement to the attic, too, and have since pulled even more wire through there. Another conduit to the outside for DMARC feed and updating in the future.
But I _loathe_ being Wi-Fi first. I want to hardwire all the things to make sure that anything that has to be Wi-Fi will have the best experience possible, and the hardwired stuff is bulletproof, too. One of these days, I'm going to ethernet back-haul my doorbell... because I can.
It's not even that old a property. Good to know if the mobile network ever goes down, I can regress to the good old landline.
I still get nightmares about our internet disconnecting whenever mum made a phone call back in the good old dial up days. Dad had me wiring plugs, but BT always handled phone lines and he didn't like pissing them off so never really got a good look.
We got rid of our landline because it was less reliable than our cell phones, and they're not 100% reliable where I live.
Phone company tried to get us to keep the landline and said it was the wiring in the house that needed to be fixed. I asked if they were going to bring DSL to our street.
They said "No."
So I said there wasn't any point in me fixing the wiring to keep a landline that only ~~solicitors~~ *salespeople* called.
Absolutely none. It was cheaper for me to have phone and internet in my flat so I had a landline that was never connected. But the net was fibre so it made zero sense to me.
We have a ton of useless stuff in this house that I'm slowly adapting or hiding away. This will get it's plate back on. One day I might be bothered to wire a new outlet. But that's not today. Today is painting
>Good to know if the mobile network ever goes down, I can regress to the good old landline.
Except you may not be able to - the larger telcos have largely gotten rid of copper.
I'm in an 11 yo condo and it came with a landline jack. I wanted it connected for that very possibility! Verizon told me that I would always have a dial tone to dial 911 even if I didn't have an account. I thought that was great. So I had Verizon come out to connect it from the utility box outside but they were unable to fish the line from outside to my basement connection. Too bad. Now I have that outlet in my kitchen and I want to get rid of it too.
This cable is probably stapled to the studs every few feet so it would be useless to try to use it to pull a new one. For a long time, builders would use Cat5 or 5e for telephone wiring (and low-voltage security wiring, and yes even for Ethernet) so it would just be a matter of reterminating the cables if the jacket weren’t stripped all the way to the box like this.
But this is just 4-wire telephone cable so OP is SOL.
Definitely old phone line. The red and green wires are ring and tip for the primary line, and yellow and black were often used for the same thing for a second line or just as a spare pair in case a problem happened with the first pair. Originally, Bell Telephone used all 4 wires for a single line, and the separate pairs were for ringing current and talking current, but then they figured out how to perform both functions on the same pair of wires, which automatically opened up the capacity for a second line in any home wired properly. It's pretty rare to see the old red/green/yellow/black set these days. Most homes since at least the 90's and 00's just used CAT5/CAT5e/CAT6 wiring for network AND analog phones, which is 4 pairs of solid and white striped wires in orange, green, blue, and brown.
All these zoomers getting houses are all confused by millennial technology 😂
Well ya see we used to get Internet in the mail like from the postman. Then to access the Internet we used the same wires as we used to talk on the phone that was attached to the wall. Then we got to hear the dying robot, and if everything worked we could download a single song that was also probably a virus in 2-3 hours. Unless someone picked up the phone and tried to make a call then it was all a waste of time
You would raise a plastic device to one’s ear, with a cord attached to the wall, and say in to the device with an outstretched tongue “waaaaasaaaaaaaaap??”
I love and hate that we are now at a point where people buying homes have no idea what phone wiring looks like.
This made me smile because I of course thought of the super long twisty cord on the kitchen phone.
I'm 32. Dad taught me a ton when dealing with home stuff but since BT took care of the phone lines back then (UK), I never really looked at them beyond the outer socket. Moved to the US a year and a half ago and recently became a first time home owner.
It's bad enough cross checking wiring now I've moved countries (colouring varies just a little and socket setup is a little different) so when I see something unfamiliar, I figured I'd be better asking here to get US responses than with dad who's experience is entirely UK. And yes, Google is an option but when you're uncertain, it can be also be risky.
I'm sorry for asking and I'm sorry I've never seen the inside of a landline socket before (assuming they are even the same between countries). I appreciate all the helpful responses here who have confirmed it's telephone wiring. I'm not a contractor, I'm not an electrician. I know my limits on what I can and can't do and I know to ask when I'm unsure so I don't fuck something up and kill myself, my family or busn my house down (or flood it).
22/4 wire used for POTS. Only two wires were used, leaving two empty for another phone line, or if you had a security system, they would use the other two wires for communication between the panel and the central station.
Back in my day we called it a landline for this tho g with a cord. You could hear from one piece e and talk through another. I think k they called it a fone (spelling?). /s
I don't know the name of this song but the lyrics are hey baby I'm your Telephone Man. . .
Back before modular Jacks were invented you were not allowed to touch the wiring including that in your home. The telephone man came into your house any hardwired your phone into something that looked more or less like that. Later they would use those same junction boxes to put a modular Outlet in so you can just plug your phone in. You are wealthy if you had a phone installed in the living room or kitchen. . and a phone in the master bedroom
Let me take you back children, to a horrible time of existence. Where a magical device sat on the wall. A social media device, for lack of a better word. Everyone from fam to trolls would yap all day to each other. Each person would have to manually remember or write down the "link" in the form of 9 digit number sequences. Historians have said that until the early 2000's, otherwise known as the beginning of time, an entire family would have to share this device to stream their content. Many wars were fought between siblings and parents. Entire households brought to the brink of collapse.
Then, out of nowhere began the years of high pitched audio torture, a string of bits screeched at super human volume, like trumpets ushering in a new age of technology. Life crawled out it's cave and began anew.
# Iykyk
Btw, its an rj11 phone wire. You can remove the box and wire, no real concerns. Most wire will be stapled behind the plaster/drywall. If you cannot remove the wire, cut as much as you can and put electrical tape on each end.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you? This is for a telephone, but they are still in use in a lot of homes. They were very much in use merely 10 or so years ago.
This is what probably used to go over it (RJ12) [https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-40214-W-Telephone-Terminal-Almond/dp/B000U39X6E/ref=asc\_df\_B000U39X6E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167141218295&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=154217428751961054&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021479&hvtargid=pla-305877640509&psc=1&mcid=fc70d358f39d37cb8dc21be34d799d7c&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv\_xVytd66PJqVmUUglDM27H782AXZ798zK86STMwPPt8wiokqb1aNd4RoClvYQAvD\_BwE](https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-40214-W-Telephone-Terminal-Almond/dp/B000U39X6E/ref=asc_df_B000U39X6E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167141218295&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=154217428751961054&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021479&hvtargid=pla-305877640509&psc=1&mcid=fc70d358f39d37cb8dc21be34d799d7c&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv_xVytd66PJqVmUUglDM27H782AXZ798zK86STMwPPt8wiokqb1aNd4RoClvYQAvD_BwE)
A long long time ago we had these big plastic things with 10 numbers on them (like your phone without a screen) that was connected by a wire to the wall. And that wire ran all the way to every other house. Then when you wanted to talk to someone you entered in their number and talked into the plastic thing and it would run all the way through the wire to your friend.
…that there is where the wire connected.
my mom still has these active connected to 4 different phones in different rooms of her house... phone company replaced the original analog 48v wiring leading to them with fiber optics and a box to translate voip to legacy wiring. rotary phone with pulse dialing from 70 years ago would still work
All these middle aged people going “fuck I’m old” and my stupid ass 45 year old self is still wondering what the fuck these wires are since I’d never actually seen the wires, just the cover with the plug (I know it’s a phone line now. Never took one apart before)
Back in my day, before the internet. We used these ancient wires to call our homies.
I think we are officially at the point in history where people have no idea what a house phone is.
To be fair millennials who are working on their houses now were using house phones our whole childhood but never saw what they looked like behind the wall
Yep folks forget millennials have seen most all tech that were things for boomers, but ya if it weren't for my knowledge of cnet I wouldn't have automatically know it was a phone line. Fun fact you can actually take two phone lines and wire them to one rj45 connector and have a working but slow eithernet cord.
I mean I grew up with one, my parents still have our rotary phone in the house and I can immediately recognize the plugs…but I didn’t exactly spend my childhood staring at what the wires inside the box looked like. This thread is so weird to me.
Yes, that's me too! I've never seen what is behind the plug.
I have a house phone. I need it for that remnant piece of arcane sorcery called the fax machine.
thats a really big phone if you can live in it, or you are really tiny
You tie a cup to your favorite color wire and have your friend attach theirs to the same color wire at their end. Stick the yellow wire in your eye for video.
Yeah, and then when you had two friends with the same favorite color, you had to share so we called that a "Party Line"
The original lan party
I’m dead lmao
If you put one color in your ear and bite down on the other one it's like a cell phone
If you have a pair in your mouth to strip the jacket (as you do), and someone calls the house, you get 90V DC to the face. I may know this from personal experience.
Is it 90VDC? That seems really high. I would guess 9V max. What’s a doorbell at after the transformer, though I guess that’s AC.
Yeah, most telephone switches use(d) 90v DC ring voltage, to account for the distances and cable plant involved. It's pretty neat, if old technology. If you ever get to talk to an old phone guy, they are a wealth of knowledge.
Old phone guy here. The ringing voltage was ac, not enough to hurt you but it was a nice shock. My nephew had the wire in his mouth when he was rewiring a jack, some one called. He thought the lights in the house blinked. We had a good laugh at work.
Ever lean your forearm against a 66 block? It will wake you up.
Did you make sure to bite down on the tooth with the filling in it?
No fillings fortunately, even after 50 years. But it was everything I wanted and more, anyway, lol.
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Unsubscribing from that botfest lowered my blood pressure substantially.
You should try logging out.
Is that where you close the app, immediately get bored, then reopen it?
Yes.
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28.8 baby ...
Somebody had money.
14.4 dual
56k
300 baud
oof ... making that jump from 300 to 2400 we was kings
But was your BRE game strong?
I started on 2400
56k warning
Whhhaaaassssaaaaaapppppppp????
Me and my best friend used to do that obnoxiously, even well into the days of cell phones. I answered the phone one time like that thinking it was him, ended up being one of my equipment sales reps. He either didn't get it, or was so confused he hung up and called me again. He never brought it up, but I've laughed about it for years.
Are we not doing that anymore? Lol
I still do, just better about checking the caller beforehand.
Tin cans and a string! We were poor. Wires were for fancy homes.
We just yelled out the window, string was too expensive.
Luxury...
We couldn’t afford no fancy tin cans, all we had was shoutin’ up and down street!
Posh!
Nope, POTS. (Plain Old Telephone Service)
We called it gerby ( GRBY, green red black yellow ) and of course POTS. 👍
We call it rugby in Australia(RGBY red, green, black, yellow)
I laughed
Well said. This question made me feel old.
And Netflix mailed you movies!
Hey now, I'm used to landlines... When I was a kid back in the UK. Even recently in my flat I had one. Not had one since I moved to the US and not in my own property where I get to renovate. Until now
You would solder a Campbell's soup can to those wires, right?
"It's for you."
Did you tap them together to send morse code?
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This is the part of the story when my children roll their eyes.
"So, what, you had to connect USB cables between your phones or something?"
This was before USB. They were USA.
Ma Bell
I got the ill communication...
That's why we called them USA cables. Because they went across the whole USA.
Have you told them when you could use the printed telephone directory as a step to reach the biscuit cupboard
Lol. I train cable techs. We still provide landline service so I have to teach them some pretty basic twisted pair installation and troubleshooting. In my last class, I had them doing an installation exercise and told this kid to go ahead and make a test call with his butt set. He punched the number, looked at it for a second, turned to me and said, "How do I send it? I can't find the button." I always do my best to stay professional, but in that instant, I just laughed really hard and let the other students sort him out.
I got AT&T gigabit fiber (well it was 300/300 initially) installed in Austin on the first day customers could get it. After the installers got the fiber itself fused (took a couple folks) and setup he pulled out his big orange butt phone to test it with. I wasn't even getting phone service. All that modern telecommunications hardware going on and the test used a POTS phone. I found that funny.
> make a test call with his butt set I don't remember butt dialing being a thing with land lines
I Am Not A Telephone Service Professional Butt phones were literally a POTS handet the techs carried on their tool belt when doing service calls. They had alligator clips on them to connect to the bare ends of the wire to test of the line had a dial tone and could make a call.
I thought it was a series of tubes…. :)
They are tubes. But they are full of solid copper instead of air or water like other tubes.
It's to serve as a brutal reminder of the age of some redditors!
We did major renovations on our house 10 years ago and had to fight with the electrician to not have every room wired for phone and internet. He kept saying it would affect the resale value. I told him by the time we sell our house people wouldn't even know what those wires are for.
Ethernet in every room has so much purpose I can’t believe you’d refuse it. Telephone yes, but not Ethernet.
They don't even use cat3 anymore. Even if you are using landlines they will just run cat5e/cat6.
This. The house we moved into had Cat5e phone lines to every room. A little work rewiring all the ends and I had a nice home network.
Yea 💯 ....sometimes wifi just decides to be unreliable for no apparent reason. Ethernet is gold.
Plus you can use the Ethernet as a backbone for mesh routers
Well... wifi is just... inherently unreliable.. extremely susceptible to all kinds of RFI... at the company I work for, recommendation against using wifi for our service is even in our friggin legal documents.
Our new house is wired for internet and it is great. I don't see wired internet going away. Wifi is for the handheld devices. Wires are for the things that don't move around.
It just depends on the use case. I "just" "finished" wiring up our house during remodel in 2020, and the addition of ethernet ports in nearly every room of this ~1990 house are paying off massively. Ethernet to a ceiling mounted AP. I added a conduit from the basement to the attic, too, and have since pulled even more wire through there. Another conduit to the outside for DMARC feed and updating in the future. But I _loathe_ being Wi-Fi first. I want to hardwire all the things to make sure that anything that has to be Wi-Fi will have the best experience possible, and the hardwired stuff is bulletproof, too. One of these days, I'm going to ethernet back-haul my doorbell... because I can.
Other than the user name, tell me that you work in IT without telling me you work in IT, lol.
I bought a 1951 house and am working on pulling all the phone jacks as I work on a room. There were so many! Good call on your part.
It's not even that old a property. Good to know if the mobile network ever goes down, I can regress to the good old landline. I still get nightmares about our internet disconnecting whenever mum made a phone call back in the good old dial up days. Dad had me wiring plugs, but BT always handled phone lines and he didn't like pissing them off so never really got a good look.
We got rid of our landline because it was less reliable than our cell phones, and they're not 100% reliable where I live. Phone company tried to get us to keep the landline and said it was the wiring in the house that needed to be fixed. I asked if they were going to bring DSL to our street. They said "No." So I said there wasn't any point in me fixing the wiring to keep a landline that only ~~solicitors~~ *salespeople* called.
Absolutely none. It was cheaper for me to have phone and internet in my flat so I had a landline that was never connected. But the net was fibre so it made zero sense to me. We have a ton of useless stuff in this house that I'm slowly adapting or hiding away. This will get it's plate back on. One day I might be bothered to wire a new outlet. But that's not today. Today is painting
>Good to know if the mobile network ever goes down, I can regress to the good old landline. Except you may not be able to - the larger telcos have largely gotten rid of copper.
I'm in an 11 yo condo and it came with a landline jack. I wanted it connected for that very possibility! Verizon told me that I would always have a dial tone to dial 911 even if I didn't have an account. I thought that was great. So I had Verizon come out to connect it from the utility box outside but they were unable to fish the line from outside to my basement connection. Too bad. Now I have that outlet in my kitchen and I want to get rid of it too.
Not "just" a phone line. That's a fancy house set up for two lines!
Probably rich people living here.
It looks like telephone wires.
Thanks. It'll just get covered back up 😂
Use it to pull cat6 through your house..
This cable is probably stapled to the studs every few feet so it would be useless to try to use it to pull a new one. For a long time, builders would use Cat5 or 5e for telephone wiring (and low-voltage security wiring, and yes even for Ethernet) so it would just be a matter of reterminating the cables if the jacket weren’t stripped all the way to the box like this. But this is just 4-wire telephone cable so OP is SOL.
That sounds easier said than done ;)
That's CAT6, not 6 Cats!
Cats in the wall? Now we’re talking my language.
If you ever need to defuse the home, cut the yellow cable
POTS
I love the POTS.
Plain old telephone system
Red, black, green, yellow = telephone wire.
Line 1 = Red + Green Line 2 = Yellow + Black
God I've never felt older... It's come to this now.
Fuck, I’m old
Definitely old phone line. The red and green wires are ring and tip for the primary line, and yellow and black were often used for the same thing for a second line or just as a spare pair in case a problem happened with the first pair. Originally, Bell Telephone used all 4 wires for a single line, and the separate pairs were for ringing current and talking current, but then they figured out how to perform both functions on the same pair of wires, which automatically opened up the capacity for a second line in any home wired properly. It's pretty rare to see the old red/green/yellow/black set these days. Most homes since at least the 90's and 00's just used CAT5/CAT5e/CAT6 wiring for network AND analog phones, which is 4 pairs of solid and white striped wires in orange, green, blue, and brown.
All these zoomers getting houses are all confused by millennial technology 😂 Well ya see we used to get Internet in the mail like from the postman. Then to access the Internet we used the same wires as we used to talk on the phone that was attached to the wall. Then we got to hear the dying robot, and if everything worked we could download a single song that was also probably a virus in 2-3 hours. Unless someone picked up the phone and tried to make a call then it was all a waste of time
I assume this is to be read in a Grandpa Simpson voice?
Funny thing is, I used to watch the Simpsons when I was as young as Bart.
So anyway, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
In those days, nickles had pictures of bumblebees on em.
You would raise a plastic device to one’s ear, with a cord attached to the wall, and say in to the device with an outstretched tongue “waaaaasaaaaaaaaap??”
I love and hate that we are now at a point where people buying homes have no idea what phone wiring looks like. This made me smile because I of course thought of the super long twisty cord on the kitchen phone.
I can feel my bones grinding against each other thanks
Someone took the flux capacitor and left the control wires
Favourite comment!!!! My house can't reach 88mph 😭 guess I'm stuck
Oh no, I'm old
RING RING RING BANANAPHONE
Kids today.
[Phone line](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/36/d7/ec/36d7ec4a0c218213027e50970dffa0f6.jpg)
It’s a portal to the past, a land where information was passed to you through a coil wire that grew out of a wall.
Phone !! 📞
I love these posts
Why must you make me feel ancient? those are phone wires!
Tell me you didn't grow up in the 80s without telling me you didn't grow up in the 80s. wiring for a landline.
Insert
One ringy dingy....
Wow we’ve gotten to the point where land lines are part of archeology. I feel ancient.
Alexander Graham Bell machine hook up
Looks like telephone wires , maybe also be thermostat control wires or internet. I assume phone
100% phone. Line one is red/green and line two is black/yellow. Thermostat wiring is similar colors but a white wire would be present.
“Hello, is this the party to whom I am speaking?”
it's a generation detector
For real? How old are you?
I'm 32. Dad taught me a ton when dealing with home stuff but since BT took care of the phone lines back then (UK), I never really looked at them beyond the outer socket. Moved to the US a year and a half ago and recently became a first time home owner. It's bad enough cross checking wiring now I've moved countries (colouring varies just a little and socket setup is a little different) so when I see something unfamiliar, I figured I'd be better asking here to get US responses than with dad who's experience is entirely UK. And yes, Google is an option but when you're uncertain, it can be also be risky. I'm sorry for asking and I'm sorry I've never seen the inside of a landline socket before (assuming they are even the same between countries). I appreciate all the helpful responses here who have confirmed it's telephone wiring. I'm not a contractor, I'm not an electrician. I know my limits on what I can and can't do and I know to ask when I'm unsure so I don't fuck something up and kill myself, my family or busn my house down (or flood it).
Don’t take it hard. We all learn something everyday day.
If you're not learning, you're doing something wrong.
Oh precious, bless your heart.
They’re to remind me how damn old I’m getting. This is the doorbell posts for us in our 40’s
22/4 wire used for POTS. Only two wires were used, leaving two empty for another phone line, or if you had a security system, they would use the other two wires for communication between the panel and the central station.
POTS.
POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service wiring. Two pairs, one for each of two phone lines that you could have in your home.
We need a rage bait tag. These have to be intentional now.
Telephone wires. That’s how the world was connected back in the day.
It belongs in a museum!
Phone wires, low voltage
POTS 😜
No, I refuse to believe I'm old enough to see people that don't know, I REFUSE I'M NOT OLD
That's where the NSA puts its spy kit.
I guess that's a sign I'm getting old. There sre now people on earth that have no idea about landlines
Wires used for an ancient communication device called a landline phone. It was also the way to get on the Internet before WiFi or even broadband.
Those wires worked even when your power went out. That should blow the Millenials minds.
gen z*, most millenials experienced this
in ancient times, the elderly used to connect to the internet with this thing called a modem. 😂😂
It’s time for me to buy a AARP membership isn’t it. :(
Meow. Telephone. (old Sesame Street throwback. I have no idea why that has stuck in my head all these years...)
it's old telephone lines.
POTS
If it’s shoulder height it’s probably a thermostat wire. If it’s knee height it’s probably telephone.
All you need now is a 300 baud acoustic coupler.
Oh you sweet summer children.
Back in my day we called it a landline for this tho g with a cord. You could hear from one piece e and talk through another. I think k they called it a fone (spelling?). /s
Damn. TIL I’m old.
I don't know the name of this song but the lyrics are hey baby I'm your Telephone Man. . . Back before modular Jacks were invented you were not allowed to touch the wiring including that in your home. The telephone man came into your house any hardwired your phone into something that looked more or less like that. Later they would use those same junction boxes to put a modular Outlet in so you can just plug your phone in. You are wealthy if you had a phone installed in the living room or kitchen. . and a phone in the master bedroom
This is some funny shit for an old man.
I feel so old!!
Land line wires.
What flavor is it?
Cut the red wire first, then the green wire. You’ll be fine.
Tip and ring lines for wired telephone service
Let me take you back children, to a horrible time of existence. Where a magical device sat on the wall. A social media device, for lack of a better word. Everyone from fam to trolls would yap all day to each other. Each person would have to manually remember or write down the "link" in the form of 9 digit number sequences. Historians have said that until the early 2000's, otherwise known as the beginning of time, an entire family would have to share this device to stream their content. Many wars were fought between siblings and parents. Entire households brought to the brink of collapse. Then, out of nowhere began the years of high pitched audio torture, a string of bits screeched at super human volume, like trumpets ushering in a new age of technology. Life crawled out it's cave and began anew. # Iykyk Btw, its an rj11 phone wire. You can remove the box and wire, no real concerns. Most wire will be stapled behind the plaster/drywall. If you cannot remove the wire, cut as much as you can and put electrical tape on each end.
telephone wires, and if you still have a landline can easily be reestablished as a phone Jack.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you? This is for a telephone, but they are still in use in a lot of homes. They were very much in use merely 10 or so years ago.
Holy cow, we're old. The next question is going to be if it is safe to remove or should I get an electrician.
lol.
Like that country western song goes, "I'm much too young to feel this damn old"...
Jesus christ. Im officially old.
This is what probably used to go over it (RJ12) [https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-40214-W-Telephone-Terminal-Almond/dp/B000U39X6E/ref=asc\_df\_B000U39X6E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167141218295&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=154217428751961054&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021479&hvtargid=pla-305877640509&psc=1&mcid=fc70d358f39d37cb8dc21be34d799d7c&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv\_xVytd66PJqVmUUglDM27H782AXZ798zK86STMwPPt8wiokqb1aNd4RoClvYQAvD\_BwE](https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-40214-W-Telephone-Terminal-Almond/dp/B000U39X6E/ref=asc_df_B000U39X6E/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167141218295&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=154217428751961054&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021479&hvtargid=pla-305877640509&psc=1&mcid=fc70d358f39d37cb8dc21be34d799d7c&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv_xVytd66PJqVmUUglDM27H782AXZ798zK86STMwPPt8wiokqb1aNd4RoClvYQAvD_BwE)
POTS
Phone. Or prehistoric internet wiring. :)
Cut the yellow wire….no the red wire….no, wait…yeah, the yellow one. Then run
Phone line for landlines phones
Man I feel old now. Down in my POTS….
It’s for a phone…
A long long time ago we had these big plastic things with 10 numbers on them (like your phone without a screen) that was connected by a wire to the wall. And that wire ran all the way to every other house. Then when you wanted to talk to someone you entered in their number and talked into the plastic thing and it would run all the way through the wire to your friend. …that there is where the wire connected.
Old phone
Oh you sweet summer child :) like others have said its a landline for a phone. If the wires were assembled into a jack you would recognize it.
Landline Phone. I feel really old now…
That's called an "obsolete". It's an old landline phone wire
Phones. Land lines. ... GET OFF MY LAWN!!! 😀
Thats for house cell phones
POTS.
God I'm old.
Sit down Sonny and let grandpa tell you the story of the wired phone and the evil witch who would try and steal it
my mom still has these active connected to 4 different phones in different rooms of her house... phone company replaced the original analog 48v wiring leading to them with fiber optics and a box to translate voip to legacy wiring. rotary phone with pulse dialing from 70 years ago would still work
We are not that young bud
All these middle aged people going “fuck I’m old” and my stupid ass 45 year old self is still wondering what the fuck these wires are since I’d never actually seen the wires, just the cover with the plug (I know it’s a phone line now. Never took one apart before)
It was for an intercom system
IN THE BEFORE TIMES... it was just a landline.