I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Fun fact: You could dial without even using the rotary. In a morse-code-like fashion, quickly click the hang-up knob the number you want with a pause in-between numbers. So if you were calling 558-9151 (remember 7 digit numbers‽), you’d do (c = click):

    c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c

    c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c

    c

    c-c-c-c-c

    c