Can you imagine? Fewer than 85,000 people alive today in the United States remember what this was like.pic.twitter.com/8vt6jRklns
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Siri was much more helpful back then.
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In new subdivisions or town until the phone service was fully rolled out, party lines were still a thing.
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Party line
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Great story!
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So wait....your whole phone number was 208? How did that work? Wouldn’t that mean there were only 999 available phone numbers?
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Wonderful
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We didn’t have a number growing up - there was only 1 phone in the village - a boy hopped on his bike from that home and rode to get the recipient of said call.... that was Poland in 88’
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739 ..... That was our number. My grandmothers was 729 ...
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