Man this thing is ancient.

[Beep, beep, beeeeep. She's pressing buttons. Possibly trying to dial a number.]

But there's no service so does it even work?

[She studies it closely and when she finally sees the blinking 'record' light, she realizes oh hey it does work and it's been on this whole time.]

This is so fucking cool. Hello? Is anybody on the other end? I'm Ellie and I'm from the future. If you meet a grumpy old guy named Joel tell him to give me a ring [did they say that back then?] cause this is some weird shit.