Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 12 days agoMust be a strange feeling that something you used to use is now only seen in museumslemmy.worldimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down17
arrow-up190arrow-down1imageMust be a strange feeling that something you used to use is now only seen in museumslemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square25linkfedilink
minus-squarefoodandart@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days ago …never knew people used to dial only 4 digits… Yup… the trick was having your LATA code be on the mechanical switcher. They could address 9,999 numbers. Which in a town that at the time had maybe 1,900 people… it was glorious.
Yup… the trick was having your LATA code be on the mechanical switcher. They could address 9,999 numbers. Which in a town that at the time had maybe 1,900 people… it was glorious.