• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You could only program like 9 phone numbers on your phone because it only had 10 buttons for it and one of them was reserved for 911. All other numbers you either memorized, wrote down in a book or on cards, or dialed 411 to talk to a stranger whose job was to provide you with the contact information of people and businesses.

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      8 months ago

      I utilized my skills of tiny writing from cheatsheets to fit every phone number I knew only a folded sticky note that lived in my wallet for probably 20 years before I realized it was long past being useful.

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        8 months ago

        I had that on a particularly study business card. I used one of those fine-tip pens and got about 40 numbers on it. Now I talk to strangers on the internet, and the points don’t matter.

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        8 months ago

        Or calling the movie theater and listening through the entire recorded message listing the films playing and all the times they’re playing at.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com
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      8 months ago

      Ah yes, the holy book of phone numbers that was mostly written in pencil… Except for the few that were written in pen and then erased until a whole was worn through the paper, and then scratched out and a different number was written really small over 1 end of the scratched out number.