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You could only program like 9 phone numbers on your phone because it only had 10 buttons for it and one of them was reserved for 911. All other numbers you either memorized, wrote down in a book or on cards, or dialed 411 to talk to a stranger whose job was to provide you with the contact information of people and businesses.
Phones with buttons?
Yeah, that's weird. This is a telephone:
Ah yes, the holy book of phone numbers that was mostly written in pencil... Except for the few that were written in pen and then erased until a whole was worn through the paper, and then scratched out and a different number was written really small over 1 end of the scratched out number.
Also, calling a number to get the exact time when you needed to set your clocks.
Or calling the movie theater and listening through the entire recorded message listing the films playing and all the times they're playing at.
My father literally had a digital rolodex device for keeping his phone numbers in for his early cellphones.
Speed dial... Completely forgot about that one.
I never got to use speed dial, but it sounds like the kind of thing I would have. Or one of those things I would’ve meant to get around to setting up but never bothered to..
My grandma's phone is still just 5 in my mind
I utilized my skills of tiny writing from cheatsheets to fit every phone number I knew only a folded sticky note that lived in my wallet for probably 20 years before I realized it was long past being useful.
I had that on a particularly study business card. I used one of those fine-tip pens and got about 40 numbers on it. Now I talk to strangers on the internet, and the points don't matter.