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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Multi-tap is what you’re thinking of. T9 was the predictive algorithm, where you only had to hit each key once, so “fluent” could be entered as 358368.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    T9 may have worked fine for english, but as a Swede, I remember it being shit for compound words like:

    "Slussvaktarbostadshembiträde"

    "järnvägstationskiosk"

    "Diskrimineringsombudsman"

    These are obviously obtuse examples, but all are valid swedish words.

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