alt Hacker NewsHow many phone numbers do you have memorized? These days I only know a few but I used to know dozens.
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MrMorden • yesterday at 11:05 PM
A few family, a few friends, some past work numbers, some of my phone numbers from a decade or two ago when I occasionally changed them, the Apple switchboard because I might have bled in six colors a long time ago, and of course Jenny because if not for her I'd have no clue whose phone number to give to the grocery store checkout system.
userbinator • today at 12:23 AM
More IP addresses than phone numbers for me, but around a dozen of each.
iamalizard • yesterday at 10:23 PM
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I know half a dozen. All from the 80s and 90s, and only two which actually exist today.
Other than that I know mine and my wife’s.
Oddly enough I knew a company which had a phone number which was two digits transposed from my home number - 818614. My number until about 1993 was 818641. Didn’t realise the company was still going until a couple of weeks ago when a lorry pulled up outside my window with the name and phone number on.
The other number I remember is my school number for some reason, I can’t think of ever have rung it. It’s still the same number today, 30 years later.