Hell I used VCR tapes myself until digital tuner cards were cheaper, and that took awhile (2000-ish), though the problem at that point was storage still didn't compete with tapes for cost (80GB drives were still $300, vs a $2 tape, $1/hr for the tape, but the best codec at the time other than mpeg-2 was Divx, so ~$2-3/hr for HDD, though most people back then compressed movies onto 2-3 CD-R's for a bit cheaper (20 cents ea) before DVD-R prices came down). Only rotary phone I saw came from dumpster diving, parents switched to touch tone a few years before I was born back in the early 1980's so never saw one in action outside old movies (imagine working at a telemarketing center using rotaries, I bet they ran out of non-sore fingers before their shift was even half done, or broke a lot of pencils).
Fun fact: what's really crazy is VCR's kept getting made up until 2016 (who the fuck kept buying them? Probably grandmas that never learned how to use a PC tuner or how to capture a stream, when they died no one else bought them).