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Nostalgic reboots aren’t just a Hollywood thing . For movie lovers of a certain age, The Parent Trap — in which identical twins separated at birth swap places for the summer — dials up childhood memories of what we now call “dumb phones.” (And yes, the 1961 original starring Hayley Mills and the 1998 remake with Lindsay Lohan both work in this case study.) Mills’ and Lohans’ tween characters communicate via an old-school telephone — complete with a coiled cord! — to keep their switcheroo scheme going; in one instance, even ye olde ancient telegram is involved. Screen-free communication made life simpler; a calendar invite wasn’t

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