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lovernios
Wed Jul 13 2005, 11:29pm Print
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rotary dialed phones...
anyone remember them?
ya, I do.

Does anyone wonder why the phone manufacturer back in those days used the exact same configuration of assigned #'s to letters?
Meaning:
1
2 -abc
3 -def
4 -ghi
and so on...

Bear with me.

(The dial tone was the same, however)

What I am thinking is that they (the phone companies) knew something, and perhaps still do know ALOT more than they are offering to the public for communications possibilities + technology

I think we are being set up/ It's all about marketing and slowly folding new ideas and concepts into the public domain. oh, and maximizing every shred of bullshit profits too/ Because they got all the "technology" for FREEEEEEEEEEEEE

How can they have the foresight to know that those letters on THAT rotary phone used rampantly from the 40s - early 80's --
Would be used for todays IMs and keyboard messaging of all kinds on a digital cellular phone?!?!?!


Huh, I ask you?
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Juniper
Mon Sep 03 2007, 08:54am
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uh this is retarded... cuz didn't 'they' just use the same configuration from back in the day for the shit now..... out of simplicity?


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Juniper
Mon Sep 03 2007, 08:55am
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yeah i know Mike doesn't come here anymore...

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Thrash
Mon Sep 03 2007, 06:08pm
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Actually, it's not ...
The ORIGINAL IDEA was to spell words to take away from the 7-10 number thing ...

IE: "My number's KL6-1212" ....

It was also thought to start out the phone numbers with state abbreviations ...

There were ideas, however, I don't know about looking 50 years forward ...

Then again, Star Trek; what did their "communicators" resemble today?
... or was that thought of afterward as a cellphone design from a Trekkie?
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Juniper
Mon Sep 03 2007, 07:20pm
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hmmmm ... something to ponder for sure... i'll ask Matt what he thinks... he's into this stuff too...

he's probably got a great theory..

he's not awake yet though...
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Thrash
Mon Sep 03 2007, 08:17pm
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I was just throwing this out there; I base it on nothing concrete, however, I've read things that I can't site reference to over the years ...
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Thrash
Mon Sep 03 2007, 08:18pm
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[Click, Dick]
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Juniper
Mon Sep 03 2007, 08:41pm
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i figured as much...
....but i need something interesting to throw out to Matt to keep his mind off disturbing matters at home...
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Thrash
Mon Sep 03 2007, 11:35pm
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Tell him I'll let him run RAMPANT in this section ...
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Juniper
Tue Sep 04 2007, 12:57am
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heh.... ok. man i hope his situation improves.... i hate it when life sucks for my friends...
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Thrash
Tue Sep 04 2007, 04:26am
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Oi
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Juniper
Tue Sep 04 2007, 04:30am
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Yep. Öi Vey.

i talked to him, but i forgot to tell him, we watched Dirty Jobs...
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