Mastodawn

Neil Brown 1d ago

Have you ever...

Used a telephone book

19.3%

Spoken to a (human) telephone operator

11.6%

Reversed charges on a call

7.4%

Made a call from pay phone / phone box

18.4%

Received a call on a pay phone / phone box

7.2%

Used a phone card

15.2%

Dialled from one exchange to another to route a call

2.6%

Used a rotary dial phone

18.2%

Poll ended at 4:12pm.

Show thread

Stephen Paulger

@neil I am curious what it means to dial from one exchange to another.

I probably only called local numbers as a kid and dialing other areas when I was older was always just preceding the number with a 4 or 5 digit area code, did it work differently before?