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Yea, I also remember party lines and dialing only the last four digits of a phone number if it was in the same exchange.

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... and often picking up the phone to hear no ringtone but a conversation. Checking the phone again about every 5 minutes waiting for them to finish their call.

Hearing the phone ring and letting it ring to make sure it was your ring and not for someone else. Two longs or two shorts, or a long and a short ... who is it for ...?

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Oh and not being able to use it with AOL!

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How many CDs did you get?

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They just started handing them out like candy

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Pick up the phone and kick yourself off.

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8675309 !!!!! That song would suck now.

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It's a good thing Jenny didn't live in another country...

+44 86 7530 9000

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Now let's not complicate things for the average hormonal teenager, LOL

In small towns you just have to know the last 4 digits.

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Really

Yeah everyone has the same area code and first 3 digits.

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Smedley, you're not old enough. I remember when we didn't have zip codes either.

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I grew up with a rotary phone man. I may be only 35, but my memory goes back to a very early age. I remember bush Sr being president. I didn't have a computer till I was like 10 or 11

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I’m pretty old and I don’t remember this. Growing up, my parents lived in different area codes. I remember having to dial 1-(area code)- 555-5555

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Cool. I'm gonna call your parents

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Am I in trouble?

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Nah, you got lost in the grocery store again

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MAin 2-6652

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I don't follow

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Exchanges used to be named, and the first two number were said as a word.

So, if your business was at 622-6652, you'd print "Call MAin 2-6652" on your advertising.

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So that's how the old birds did it

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Pennsylvania 6-5000

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PEnnsylvania 6-5000, yes.

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Garfield 1-2323