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mwooldri

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28. Childhood phone number was easy to remember

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 11:07 PM

Dec 2024

201 was mine at one point.

UK had village exchanges with 3 digit phone numbers. Area code was 6 digits long. Alas those 3 digit numbers are no more, the exchanges were modernized and linked in with other areas. After all, tone dialing had to be introduced and those mechanical exchanges with the purring cat as the dial tone had to go.

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Who else remembers their childhood phone number but not the [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 OP

Guilty chicoescuela Dec 2024 #1

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #2

Yeah, I always have to reset passwords. mucifer Dec 2024 #3

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #6

284-8884 OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #4

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #7

sounds like an ambulance chasing lawyer rampartd Dec 2024 #15

Was my childhood phone number True Dough Dec 2024 #5

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #8

Is that you, Jenny? Xavier Breath Dec 2024 #18

From the block? Like JLo? True Dough Dec 2024 #33

Main 5 65 21!!! elleng Dec 2024 #9

😃 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #11

Hint: Make your next password your childhood phone number.... Sogo Dec 2024 #10

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2024 #12

GOOD idea!!!!! elleng Dec 2024 #13

I've done that already! catchnrelease Dec 2024 #24

lol! FemDemERA Dec 2024 #26

Raises hand! virgdem Dec 2024 #14

Not only my childhood phone #... fairfaxvadem Dec 2024 #16

B-R-549 SalamanderSleeps Dec 2024 #17

Not me Faux pas Dec 2024 #19

I remember my childhood phone number. It started with WH. Dem2theMax Dec 2024 #20

That would be me. NNadir Dec 2024 #21

Ours was TRINITY 2-1575 Jeebo Dec 2024 #22

Texas-4-3023. Hubby's was - Avenue - something, something. Srkdqltr Dec 2024 #32

Ours was ... dsvajda Dec 2024 #47

I moved every two years Skittles Dec 2024 #23

010 353 4636677 mwooldri Dec 2024 #25

7642 - and it was a party line. There were 6 other houses on our line dai13sy Dec 2024 #27

Childhood phone number was easy to remember mwooldri Dec 2024 #28

Yeeup WestMichRad Dec 2024 #29

Anybody remember the "beep line"? crimycarny Dec 2024 #30

Remember my phone # from the 1970s and those of 5 or 6 friends AdamGG Dec 2024 #31

Wow, I just remembered my neighbor's phone number in Greece 50 years ago. Pompoy Dec 2024 #34

These days only mine and my wife's, not the son's and daughter's. Pompoy Dec 2024 #38

Vernon 7 -2628 later 837-2628 in late 1950s. PufPuf23 Dec 2024 #35

I guess I am older than most of those that replied.... walkingman Dec 2024 #36

Yes! snacker Dec 2024 #48

Yes snacker Dec 2024 #49

I carefully write my passwords down on a piece of paper. Then I only have to remember where I put the piece of paper. hay rick Dec 2024 #37

The password I created the other day was my childhood telephone number Brother Buzz Dec 2024 #39

Same here. My siblings and I use that number for lots of things. Midnight Writer Dec 2024 #57

EL5-7442 bobandrileysmom Dec 2024 #40

25 R 12 DallasNE Dec 2024 #41

My parents still have the same phone number as when I was a child... RockRaven Dec 2024 #42

BRunswick 8 5748 boonecreek Dec 2024 #43

Yep IbogaProject Dec 2024 #44

Sure Cirsium Dec 2024 #45

ARdmore 1-1307 hedda_foil Dec 2024 #46

Does the one from age 12 count? By the time i was 12, my family... 3catwoman3 Dec 2024 #50

Me. TE-7-3942. Try it. See if I answer. HUAJIAO Dec 2024 #51

That's me! KitFox Dec 2024 #52

Can't remember that phone number other than it started duncang Dec 2024 #53

All the time. Think it through. DFW Dec 2024 #54

Yep Figarosmom Dec 2024 #55

I remember the one phone number until I moved out at age 16 airplaneman Dec 2024 #56

Well, I use a password manager.... CousinIT Dec 2024 #58