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Feb. 13th, 2007
The Telephone Exchange Name project.
My current phone number has a new enough prefix that it never had letters, but I grew up in Ada, where you dialed FEderal-2 plus the last four.
During my childhood with a Stonewall phone number, you only had to dial the last 5 digits (5-xxxx instead of 265-xxxx) to reach someone locally. This was in the 1980's. When the area code changed a few years ago, the people there got thrust willy-nilly into the Century of the Fruitbat and now have to dial 1-580-332-xxxx to reach folks just a couple of miles away (on a toll charge) and have to dial the full 265-xxxx to reach a neighbor.
My current phone number has a new enough prefix that it never had letters, but I grew up in Ada, where you dialed FEderal-2 plus the last four.
During my childhood with a Stonewall phone number, you only had to dial the last 5 digits (5-xxxx instead of 265-xxxx) to reach someone locally. This was in the 1980's. When the area code changed a few years ago, the people there got thrust willy-nilly into the Century of the Fruitbat and now have to dial 1-580-332-xxxx to reach folks just a couple of miles away (on a toll charge) and have to dial the full 265-xxxx to reach a neighbor.