Back in my day...

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  T9word for the win

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There was a significant period of time where I was faster with t9 than the physical keyboard on my original Droid.

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To this day I still feel superior for knowing how to use the T9 when everyone else was mashing buttons like plebs.

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plus you could keep the phone in you pocket while you texted in class, meaning the teacher couldn’t see you

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  • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    T9 was eons better than trying to cram all 26 letters of the alphabet on a touchscreen

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• MakingWork@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It wasn’t necessarily unlimited texting either. Some plans had a fixed amount of texts per month.

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  • knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    $0.10 per sms message. Even those you received and had no control over.

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    • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re damn right I’m using up all 140 characters in this text.

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This just unlocked a core memory of “prank me when you’re here.” As in, call me a hang up before I answer so it’s free because texting or answering the call would cost money.

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• mkhopper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And then the first time you learned about T9. Game changer.

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  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It took some getting used to, but it was vastly superior to the new-age Morse Code OP is describing. Two words have the same numbers? “Next!”

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  • sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I kinda miss being able to type under the table without looking. T9 was great

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• BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  what’s cool about t9 is that you can also cipher shit pretty easily and most people wouldn’t bother to decipher it. 94281702665022688081047084280968022602576024743707448077388903274590263066780736753096853618026843708603324743704810

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never used the t9 text prediction crap. I multi-pressed every character into existence with >5wpm.

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Smashing the keys so fast the phone is still typing when you stop.

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    • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      a man of culture right here. Salute!

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And limited letter too, that’s why in that era everything can be shortened will be shortened.

  K thx bye

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Germans were like: GLG HDL BB and shorthened 37 letters down to 10

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      no they’re just typing welsh

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Back when cell phones had physical buttons, I used to be able to type out entire sentences without even looking. Now get off my lawn!!

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I want this for my tv remote so much! Navigating through an on screen keyboard with arrow keys is just horrible…

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s insane that manufacturers make smart TV remotes without a built in keyboard.

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• Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was faster on that keyboard than on qwerty on smartphones. :(

  Also, I hate T9, always disabled >:(

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i still need to get a small, foldable portable keyboard for my phone. that would be nice.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  T9 texting also existed, with various levels of success. I remember trying it a bit and it did generally work but at least with the phone I had it was pretty annoying when it didn’t. Should have used the 1 key to toggle T9 on/off and it would have been so much better.

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I found it easier back then. The tactile nature meant that you didn't have to even glance at your phone to be able to type out whole sentences.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. I could send messages with my hand in my pocket.

    I couldn’t read them though.

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I used to keep my eyes in my pocket too!

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had that Prada KE850 phone. It came out before the iPhone and had a capacitive touchscreen. It also came with this ABC keyboard. Texting was, once you knew where all the buttons were, a whole lot faster than with buttons. No pressing any buttons for 2 millimeters, just some quick finger tapping that stopped at the edge of the screen. Dual wielding the pointy fingies or some acrobatics with the right one.

  I’d go back.

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In that golden moment when the Blackberry was the hottest hot shit

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Woa TIL that existed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

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• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I still have nightmares about dialing rotary phones . I miss old texting because I could do it without looking.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can do rotary phones without looking. The text messaging, though, not quite there yet.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A was one press. B was two. C, that fella was three presses. D? Not five, back to one. Texting was tricky like that

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