Comment on Never forget

cymbal_king@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Una@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I didn’t know you can use letters as phone number and call it.

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  • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is the most Zoomer comment I’ve ever seen

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    • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As certainly not a zoomer I can safely say I’m glad they are gone, nothing is more annoying than those letters.

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The practice of using the T9-letters to memorise a phone number is just not done much outside the USA

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      • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Even referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.

        Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep in know about it from American media but never seen this done anywhere else that I know of (and I know how to type T9).

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    • tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      👴

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What did you think the letters on the number buttons were for? Nostalgia?

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    • Una@europe.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For text messages.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I suppose if you’re young enough you wouldn’t have known landline phones had the letters, too. 🤔

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  • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It corresponds to 1-800-784-8669

    1000014023

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    • Una@europe.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nice, never heard of someone using letters on phone numbers. I did used to send text messages like this.

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      • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh! I assumed you were too young to have known about texting like that. I forgot that marketing style isn’t very common outside the states

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This makes me feel old.

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