Eli5: how does a cord landline work when the power is out?

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Like the phones that have a special plug and everything, the cord one still work when the electricity is out and they don’t seem to have batteries in there, so how and why do they still work

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The simplest answer that is true is that the electricity is provided through the phone line. Phones did not need to be plugged into a power outlet until answering machines (voicemail for the ignorant) got built into the landline phones.

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