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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember your phone number from when you were a 'ute? Ours was operator serviced. [View all]Hekate
(90,914 posts)40. True. During the short time I was on Facebook with a friend & her friends, they really enjoyed
all these little memory tests and games that were going around. I noticed fairly quickly that all of them revolved around things people were encouraged to use as passwords and backup questions. For entities like banks and credit cards, and stuff like that.
I finally said to whoever might be paying attention that someone was collecting an awful lot of personal data and I never participated in those games again.
I actually do use some of the numbers for short numerical passwords on my iPad. For awhile it drove me crazy by asking me to change the 4-digit passcode repeatedly at short intervals. I finally settled on street numbers of childhood addresses and kept changing them off until it settled down.
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Do you remember your phone number from when you were a 'ute? Ours was operator serviced. [View all]
3Hotdogs
Mar 26
OP
Those phones were indestructible. Unfortunately they were used as weapons sometimes
Walleye
Mar 26
#1
Same here. Used to have a head full of telephone numbers. Don't need them anymore
Walleye
Mar 26
#10
Yup, way back when we used two letter phone designation with a number, then four digits..Usually the
mitch96
Mar 26
#3
True. During the short time I was on Facebook with a friend & her friends, they really enjoyed
Hekate
Mar 27
#40
My greatgrandfather lived in Bryants Pond, Maine, home of the last crank telephone system.
bluedigger
Mar 26
#11
Operator service for us too, in Auburn, Alabama, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "Number please!"
Bo Zarts
Mar 26
#12
Not only do I remember our phone when I was a kid in the '50s. I remember my grandmother's phone
Wonder Why
Mar 26
#14
Heck, my sister still has it. It's a couple of numbers longer than it as in the late 40s, but still works.
Biophilic
Mar 26
#18
Yes, and it's still my Mom's number even though she moved out of the house several years ago.
beaglelover
Mar 26
#25
Small useless factoid: 867 5309 Jenny was written a stone's throw away from...
Brother Buzz
Mar 26
#36