Re: CHAT: postcodes

* Padraic Brown said on 2002-09-23 23:55:04 +0200
> --- taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > * Padraic Brown said on 2002-09-23 03:14:54 +0200
> > > Probably within a decade or so, we'll all have to dial
> > > about 20 numbers to make a call.
> >
> > Uhm... phone numbers?
>
> Digits in a phone number.
Didn't even notice that, was trying to be sarcastic without the bloody ;-)

I don't think we'll pass along numbers at all; just v-cards and similar,
which'll be loaded into your computerized address-book to be used by
your voice-over-ip system and/or downloaded to your cell phone/pda etc.

> > You don't store frequently used numbers under a name
> > and search on that?
As in: push the address-book button on the cell, then search or
browse to the right name, hit the 'call'-button.

> I have two "frequently" used phone numbers and between
> three and five "less used" numbers stored in my head.
> Everything else is what the phone book is for.
The only phonenumbers in my head is the emergency numbers and the
one to my parents house, all other are stored on the cell phone.

frequent == likely to use it more than once a year

My own number too, I never were very good at remembering that,
especially as with the cell phone-craze you got a new number each
time you got a new phone as the subscriptions in general didn't
carry over.

The mid nineties marked the beginning of the cell phone epidemic
in my country. They were being sold for 1 NOK (~ 15 cents?) a piece,
and suddenly "everyone" had one. Now children (12 and older) are
*expected* by their peers to have one, which is nuts. I was lucky
to live my childhood/teenage years early enough to avoid that mess.

> > I only ever dial a *number* when I'm about to call
> > somebody completely unknown and that happens less
> > than once a month!
>
> Oh, you mean like - I don't even know what it's called
> - on those phones that store numbers and you push a
> button to dial the whole thing? I don't call enough
> people or places to bother.
Neither do I but I prefer memorizing passwords and pin-codes
to wasting that long-term brain-storage on phone numbers.

> > t., who doesn't have a cabled phone at all
Just a worn Motorola GSM cell phone with WAP and a rotten interface.
The battery is going so I guess it's time for a new one.

> My phone is rotory dial, for what it's worth.
Wow, haven't seen one 'a those since the eighties! Neat!

Hang on to it a while more and it'll be legible for a museum, and
I'm not kidding! The old "grey" rotary phones that were everywhere
during my childhood are only found in museums and retro-shops now.


t.

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