A phone with a cord attached to the receiver, as opposed to a cordless phone or modern cellphone. Corded phones are the oldest of all phones, dominant in everyday use at least until the early 1990s. They may have a rotary dial, although these were gradually superseded by push button systems from the 1980s onward. The earliest antique phones had no integrated dialing system at all; either the connection was between two devices only, or a manual telephone exchange was needed.