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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 41 points 1 year ago

The phone number at my home growing up as a child. The building is gone, the phone is gone. The number remains.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 year ago

I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don't even know my own actual phone number.

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Me too. Back then you had to know your numbers by heart and thats the only one I still know.

It did help that it was only 4 digits after the area code

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Your city only has 4 digit phone numbers??? Where do live??? The place phones were invented???

(That joke would play better if everyone knew where phone numbers were first installed, and I could just say the city name....ok, let me try something else)

Where do you live??? In Alexander Gram Bell's living room???

Meh.

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Germany in the 1980's. In the first few years we even had to share the line with our upstairs neighbours, their number was one removed from ours.

But four digit numbers were pretty common back then.

[-] jmbmkn@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

This is useful for passwords though a 11 pretty random string of numbers to add to the end of a passphrase

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago

a.k.a. salting

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same here. Also my grandparents and a few others. Ironically I can't recall any numbers besides my own these days

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