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
Naga (he/him)@ranidspace @internetsdairy I wondered that too when I learned of 999, thinking that would take notably longer to actually dial in an emergency than 911 in the US.