internetsdairyRecommend telling your kids that back in the day the length of time it took to dial a phone number was proportionate to the sum of its digits
Ranid@internetsdairy this took me so long to figure out what weird part of the phone protocol or how calling worked would make it be like this before i remembered the rotary dial </3
@internetsdairy did rotary dials being common and the UK emergency number being "999" ever coexist. if so that seemed like an oversight lol
@ranidspace they did, for a long time. They possibly did it like that to make it less likely to dial accidentally.
Programmer 832-529 🍅@internetsdairy @ranidspace 0 was "past" 9 so an even worse number would be 000 which is what Australia uses for emergency calls.
Wild to think how a pizza chain used 411 1111 which was almost the fastest number to dial.