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The phone number at my home growing up as a child. The building is gone, the phone is gone. The number remains.

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I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don’t even know my own actual phone number.

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Me too. Back then you had to know your numbers by heart and thats the only one I still know.

It did help that it was only 4 digits after the area code

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Your city only has 4 digit phone numbers??? Where do live??? The place phones were invented???

(That joke would play better if everyone knew where phone numbers were first installed, and I could just say the city name…ok, let me try something else)

Where do you live??? In Alexander Gram Bell’s living room???

Meh.

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Germany in the 1980’s. In the first few years we even had to share the line with our upstairs neighbours, their number was one removed from ours.

But four digit numbers were pretty common back then.

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Ah yes, good ol phone number of 1

ETA: Why’d you downvote me? Did I accidentally dox you?? Fine, we’ll pretend like your phone number is 2

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Same here. Also my grandparents and a few others. Ironically I can’t recall any numbers besides my own these days

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This is useful for passwords though a 11 pretty random string of numbers to add to the end of a passphrase

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a.k.a. salting

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0118 999 881 999 119 725 … 3

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Well that’s easy to remember !

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What’s so difficult about remembering 911?

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25 points

My ICQ number

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Uh-oh

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Your what?

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ICQ, one of the first messengers. Every user had a unique number, like phone numbers today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

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The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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Yesss

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The produce codes for bananas, green grapes, red grapes, and cucumbers, from my first job 28 years ago.

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I still remember the codes for the two different chicken patties McDonald’s had while transitioning from one to the other. We were desperate to get the old one out of the system but you could only do so after it was unused for 90 days. I went as far as renaming it so that it would be obvious for order takers not to use it.

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