there was this brief period of time when 'dialing by letters' which was facilitated by push button phones came around when rotary phones were still in use and let me tell u trying to spell something with a rotary phone
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there was a brief glorious window where i could reply to texts using T9 without looking at my screen to make sure i wasn't yelling about getting ducked
Some days I miss being able to speed run dialing by tapping the disconnect quickly.
Other days I recall how you could get an apartment phone number by listening to the box page them from the door.
you might already know this, but area codes were originally assigned by a) how popular they were and b) how long it took for the rotary dial to return back to "start over" for the next number. So NYC: 212, Chicago 312, LA 213, etc
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Other days I recall how you could get an apartment phone number by listening to the box page them from the door.