Post #1871090
2026-01-26 10:36 UTC
@roadriverrail
Back in the 80s and early 90s everyone had phone numbers memorized. Not many but the most important ones. Our home landline, the one from my grand parents, my moms work phone. Stuff like that.
At the end of the 90s mobile phones became more common and people stopped memorizing phone numbers. It's all in their phones phonebooks. And you don't have to dial it anymore, just click on it. Incoming calls from known contacts are shown by name. Hey, it's mom!
I can still tell you that my grandmas house was 06142-65846 (she died 10 years ago). And I have the same mobile number for 8 years now, but I still have to look it up. Because I never use that skill anymore.
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@roadriverrail@signs.codes 2026-01-26 13:02
@momo You're not the only one to mention this, and indeed, I can still recall my grandparents' phone number but don't know the phone for one of my partners. I do wonder how many people really had that many phone numbers memorized, though. There were a lot of pen-and-paper solutions.