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Getting her number (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 78 points 1 month ago (11 children)

In the ancient past when our mobileks didn't even have a touchscreen, letters were placed in groups of 3 on the numpad. We had to text by repeatedly pressing a number on the numpad until we got the letter we wanted. This also allowed for numbers to be arranged into a word.

Notable examples include

  • 877CASHNOW
  • 1 877 kars4kids
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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Some phone apps still have them.

    I went looking for its technical name, and apparently it is E.161 (?)

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Wait, so your telling me that this was actually a thing?? I always thought it was some TV / movie thing to not actually show a number so that people wouldn't call it.

    I've never encountered this outside of English speaking media so it never occured to me that this was something you can do. I feel a little ashamed, because I had a dumb phone way into 201X.

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