Things that were part and parcel of the lives of people living in the second half of the 20th century are all but unknown to millennials. For instance, it's still not unusual to say 'nafal li ha'asimon' (the nearest equivalent to the penny dropped). But stop any number of millennials in the street and ask them what exactly is an asimon, and few, if any, will know. It's a telephone token, shaped like a coin with a groove in the middle. It was used to make calls from public phones. But if public phones no longer exist, the last reminders of another era, having been removed from city streets in 2022, why should millennials be able to define an asimon? For that matter, how many millennials are familiar with a phone with a dial?
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