Comment on Never forget

• NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the most Zoomer comment I’ve ever seen

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    👴

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It corresponds to 1-800-784-8669

  1000014023

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This makes me feel old.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For text messages.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Una@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know, still have 2 but rarely use them.

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