Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM to Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days agoMillenials what other odd things did you used to do or that you remember when you were youngerhexbear.netimagemessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down11
arrow-up1103arrow-down1imageMillenials what other odd things did you used to do or that you remember when you were youngerhexbear.netAlaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM to Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square143fedilink
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·5 days agoThere used to be a phone number you would call to find out what time it was
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·5 days agoWoah AND temperature where you lived? You lived in the future!
minus-squarea_party_german [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 days agoGOOD post
minus-squareGosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·5 days agoSuch services still exist in most countries. They’re not too popular, I suppose.
minus-squareDes [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 days agobasically how i learned to use the phone as a wee child. my grandparents loved showing me all these unknown social services floating around out there
minus-squareANarcoSnowPlow [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days ago“At the tone, the time will be 7:23 pm… Ding”
minus-squaredustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agodid you all have the thing before 411? it was like (area code)-555-1212 that you could call to find out things that weren’t in the yellow pages
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agoI don’t know, if I did I never had anyone clue me in. If it wasn’t word of mouth or some radio commercial it may well have not existed that one feels like: man, maybe if I were cooler as a kid I would have had the hook up on this municipal service phone line
There used to be a phone number you would call to find out what time it was
“Time and temp”
Woah AND temperature where you lived? You lived in the future!
GOOD post
Such services still exist in most countries. They’re not too popular, I suppose.
basically how i learned to use the phone as a wee child. my grandparents loved showing me all these unknown social services floating around out there
“At the tone, the time will be 7:23 pm… Ding”
did you all have the thing before 411? it was like (area code)-555-1212 that you could call to find out things that weren’t in the yellow pages
I don’t know, if I did I never had anyone clue me in. If it wasn’t word of mouth or some radio commercial it may well have not existed
that one feels like: man, maybe if I were cooler as a kid I would have had the hook up on this municipal service phone line