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Keri BlakingerAnd leave those assassination coordinates at pay phones like nbd !
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Thommy@keribla the really weird thing is, when I was a kid, there were even school phonebooks. So, like, we all went home with this little directory of other students' phone numbers! I don't know how widespread that phenomenon was but just as one would expect, it lead to a lot of prank calls...
@keribla alt text: tweet of @[email protected] saying "hard to believe there was once a time were they'd send a big yellow book to everyone's house listing yours and everyone else's assassination coordinates
VickyScarlett@thomasjwebb @keribla and you could ring up the phone company and for a small feel get books for other areas or go to a library reference desk and consult one’s from other locations.
@thomasjwebb oh yes! We had those!
@keribla I totally forgot about that being a thing until I saw this.
@thomasjwebb also ours included the teachers !
@keribla I think ours did too. They had this utopian idea that kids would actually call teachers if they had questions about homework.
lorddimwit is now @My college back in 1998 or so had a completely searchable online student directory, with no authentication. You could put in my name and it would tell you which dorm I lived in, room number and everything.
HarryKrischner@keribla as far as i know we in Germany still can get our hands on those books with telephone numbers on Papyrus. These are our actual phone dialing devices btw:
@keribla germany be like: never change a faulty system and try to fix it
3wombats@keribla @elliottrandall My friend used to deliver those lol
30 years ago my email signature included a “missile address” with my exact latitude and longitude in case you wanted to fire an ICBM at me. It’s a wonder I survived.
@keribla have you seen the original terminator movie, HOW did he find her, yeah, exactly!
stoicmike@keribla If you didn't want to be listed you had to pay extra. You could call it a ransom.