Comment on text don't call
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Sometimes places call me and it already has their info despite them not being a contact I have saved. Like they have a name not a number, and even a pfp that isn’t a colored circle with a number or letter in it. If I was lost and got a call from the fire department that said it was the fire department I think I might pick up.
Tbh if I was lost and I got a call come through, I’d answer regardless of what caller ID said. If they were wasting my time, I’d just hang up.
Now, at home when I’m safe and everything is fine… I’m sure I’ve missed phone interviews at least once or twice letting voice-mail catch it…
There’s an Android system that does this, it’s quite useful actually.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Caller ID has been around since the 80s.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
All I remember from caller ID even through the 90’s with landline phones was it would show you the number unless you had manually saved more info for said number or they paid the phone company to obfuscate it so it would not even show the number. I wasn’t one of those teens that was glued to the phone tho.🤷🏻♂️
frostysauce@lemmy.world 9 months ago
From the beginning caller ID showed name and number.