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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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My previous credit card number.

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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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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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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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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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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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I vibe most with wavelengths of 490 to 500 nanometers, but right now I’m feeling a little magenta.

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Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1st Samuel 2nd Samuel 1st King 2nd Kings 1st Chronicles 2nd Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther job psalms proverbs Ecclesiastes song of songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habbakuk Zephaniah Haggai Zachariah Malachi

I’m pretty sure I can do the New testament also but I think you get the point.

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Something something Bible. I have no idea what any of this means.

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It’s just the list of the books of the old testament.

I went to a Christian School and one of the tasks one quarter was to memorize them and recite them.

After you’ve done it a handful of times you realize that there is a rhythm or a cadence to the words and it’s easier to memorize them by memorizing the cadence then it is by memorizing the words themselves.

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What a useless thing to teach to children. By reciting the names you still don’t know anything about the content.

I’m sorry they made you do that.

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We had a song in Sunday School that was just the books of the Bible. I could hear it in my head while reading your post.

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I had to do that too. Luckily I dont remember past the first five.

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Aaargh, me too. I can still hear Sister Bernadette singing and see her little spectacled face bobbing from side to side as she taught us the songs.

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