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MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

You dialled by putting a finger in each number hole one at a time, dragging each one to the stop. When I was a kid our town’s phone numbers had just four digits, didn’t take long to dial.

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WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Your number had what now?? Wow. Maybe you mean five? I was reading a Times article that they changed the four digit codes in 1930, but maybe that wasn’t standardized across the country. I’ve learned more about phone history than I ever expected to in my life. 🤣

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- MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m from New Zealand originally. Small town in a small country. The time zone joke back then was, “If it’s 5pm in Sydney, it’s 1956 in Auckland.”
  
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  - WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I love that, I might need to tweak that for personal use. 😍
    
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