Maybe some younger people, born in the 21st century, don’t remember, but every house had a landline, and what is most amazing from this perspective, many were produced on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
It is a common situation on social networks that people remember an object that is once upon a time was common in every house while today we remember it only in situations when someone asks on Facebook, Instagram or Reddit – does anyone know what this is?
Today it’s the turn of the Iskra ETA 80 phone. It was designed by Davor Savnik in 1978 and was manufactured in the Iskra factory in Kranj. in Slovenia.
People on Reddit recall their last contact with this type of technology, but still praise the timeless design.
“I still have trauma from this phone and its ring”; “Grandma’s same landline is sitting in the hall right now” “Mine had emergency numbers printed on it”; We had one of the first modern such telephones in several villages at my grandparents’ in the village”; I like Iskra wall clocks and alarm clocks. Simple design, but it looks powerful. Too strong a factory for its time”, are just some of the comments.
And indeed, this design has been praised so much around the world that numerous professional American and European magazines and magazines have written about it. In a very short time time phone models A spark ETA 80 but also ETA 85 they became part of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in New York MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) as well as the Munich Museum of Modern Art.
By the way, numerous global companies have copied this design due to the unfortunately resolved protection of patent rights. It is estimated that 300 million Savnik phones were made.
