I was talking with my wife about that a couple weeks ago, how I can remember my childhood home phone number, but don't even know my own actual phone number.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Me too. Back then you had to know your numbers by heart and thats the only one I still know.

It did help that it was only 4 digits after the area code

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Your city only has 4 digit phone numbers??? Where do live??? The place phones were invented???

(That joke would play better if everyone knew where phone numbers were first installed, and I could just say the city name....ok, let me try something else)

Where do you live??? In Alexander Gram Bell's living room???

Meh.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Germany in the 1980's. In the first few years we even had to share the line with our upstairs neighbours, their number was one removed from ours.

But four digit numbers were pretty common back then.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah yes, good ol phone number of 1

ETA: Why'd you downvote me? Did I accidentally dox you?? Fine, we'll pretend like your phone number is 2

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Same here. Also my grandparents and a few others. Ironically I can't recall any numbers besides my own these days

[–] jmbmkn@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is useful for passwords though a 11 pretty random string of numbers to add to the end of a passphrase

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago

a.k.a. salting