Children are used to using the latest smartphones and tablets to make video calls and browse the internet.

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So how do you think they'd react to the sight of an old-fashioned landline 'rotary' phone with a dial instead of number keys?

This YouTube video posted by The Fine Bros shows that the kids really didn't have a clue!

When 8-year-old Brooke-Monae picks up the phone and hears the dial tone, she says: "Dial tone... I think I've heard of that."

A 5-year-old boy named Lucas says: "I wasn't born in the 40s, so I have no idea what you're talking about."

Even the older children struggled with the concept of a landline. "Would it be like, you pick up the phone and it's in Morse code or something?" suggests 13-year-old Thomas.

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