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Evil KittyI didn’t know you can use letters as phone number and call it.
TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾It corresponds to 1-800-784-8669
Nice, never heard of someone using letters on phone numbers. I did used to send text messages like this.
Oh! I assumed you were too young to have known about texting like that. I forgot that marketing style isn’t very common outside the states
This is the most Zoomer comment I’ve ever seen
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wiesonThe practice of using the T9-letters to memorise a phone number is just not done much outside the USA
ObiEven referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.
Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link
Dial Comes To Town : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
As certainly not a zoomer I can safely say I’m glad they are gone, nothing is more annoying than those letters.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 What did you think the letters on the number buttons were for? Nostalgia?
For text messages.
I suppose if you’re young enough you wouldn’t have known landline phones had the letters, too. 🤔
I know, still have 2 but rarely use them.