You never knew what kind of machine greeting you'd hear when you called someone in the 80s. That's what made it so fun! The new "Star Wars-stricken culture" had not only begun to normalize the robotic ...

Martin Schneider of the website "Dangerous Minds" reviews a series of pre-recorded outgoing messages made by Radio Shack in the 1980s when home... Radio Shack's Answering Machine Messages Were Hip To ...

My family has finally retired our digital answering machine and switched to all cell phones. However we have a few messages on the machine that we would like to archive in .mp3 format before recycling ...

Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

Apple's implementation of a digital video answering machine, once destined for inclusion in an earlier version of Mac OS X, has been resurrected in a patent filing, suggesting the company may give the ...

Hi this is _____. I can't come to the phone right now, but if you leave your name, credit card number, and expiration date, I'll get right back to you.