Thread 515577819

>>515577819 (OP)
Honestly i only knew my home phone number and my friends
Everything else i had to refer to the little list next to the phone

>>515578198
A single friends*

>>515577819 (OP)
I knew a dozen phone numbers easy and a couple of server IPs for games

>>515577819 (OP)
>implying 281-330-8004 is hard to remember
they need to get it together

>>515577819 (OP)
in ancient times people had the whole Bhagavad Gita in memory

>>515577819 (OP)
convenience ruins the human mind

>>515578617
Omg Jacob! This is the one friend whos number i remember
You still have my starcraft cd but you can keep it. The happiness you got in stealing it was greater than the sadness i felt in losing to Koreans. So the overall happiness in the world went up

You only had to remember 6 numbers because your friends would have same area code as you likely

>>515578719
also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)

>>515577819 (OP)
My mom taught me our home phone number with a little jingle when I was in kindergarten. I'd write someone's number down like a friend but after calling them like 3 or 4 times I'd have it memorized. It's not really hard. It would probably blow their mind knowing back in the day people memorized entire books for religious reasons.

It was super easy to remember phone numbers when I was a kid because long distance costed money so all the phone numbers you called were within a single area code. Associating a 4 digit code with someone was super easy.

>>515577819 (OP)
Remembered some. Wrote down all of them.

>>515577819 (OP)
I’m persobally amazed by the pizza delivery drivers of the past that didn’t have gps navigators

>>515577819 (OP)
when all your family and friends lived around you, you only really needed to know the last 4, as well. if you were spread out enough (my highschool had kids from about 4 different areas) you also just learned the area code and first 3 of a couple places, and the 4 was important. everybody can remember 4 things easily

>>515578617
Mike Jones, Mike Jones.

>>515579825
I sat my kids down when they started kindergarten and didnt let them leave until they could recite both phone numbers and our home address.

I still remember all my friends' numbers from the 90s. It's like remembering their names. Easy.
Most of us who lived close had the same first 3 digits, so all you were remembering was the two pair following the first three.
And if you first three were say 262, a few miles away they might have 264 or 266, so you'd just have to remember one additional number.
And if you really needed to, you could put them on speed dial, but that was an annoying process. Anyone you called often enough was someone who's number you could type in blindfolded.
My girlfriend's number was 219-2101, mine was 219-7219.
It's been 30 years, but I won't ever forget.

>>515578617
>281-330-8004
Hit Mike Jones up because Mike Jones, Mike Jones

867-5309 is the only number you need

>>515577819 (OP)
This is not real. It is too stupid to be real.

>>515578719
Shut your paki mouth.

>>515579930
I remember ordering pizza in the 90s and early 2000s, and sometimes they'd ask you the nearest cross street, and you'd just say "take laurel about a mile past the drug store, then turn right on cherry, we're two blocks down" and they'd remember that.

This is what happens when you cede your entire frontal lobe to your phone. Go back even further and most people could recite whole bible verses too.

>>515578198
i can still remember probably ten phone numbers from the 1990's ish. once it's in there it sticks. 7 digits is nothing.

>>515578617
We didn't have area codes back then kid
It was only seven numbers you had to memorize in Houston any ways

>>515579930
This is why taxis used to have such a fierce monopoly, because it required extensive training to have all the routes memorized and taxi companies were extremely protective of their methodology. With GPS any dumbfuck can be a "taxi" now.

>>515577819 (OP)
every zoomer I've ever met is a low IQ wannabe nigger basically

>>515580473
GPS maps on phones for driving is the one that really gets me. there is a specific area of the brain for this and you should never need directions to go somewhere in your own town. meanwhile we have adults who follow GPS directions to get home.

>>515580115
This man was there

Write to me Stick Stickly, PO Box 963
New York City, New York State
10108!

Scruff McGruff
Chicago, Illinois
60652

>>515580473
>Go back even further and most people could recite whole bible verses too.
I can do that now, with a few verses. There's people in my church who can do way more than me too.

>>515580344
Jenny, jenny?

>>515580711
I set my gps even if I dont need it because it will let me know if traffic is bad.

>>515577819 (OP)
I still remember all of my friend's numbers that I called as a kid and I am almost 40.
But I don't see the point in making fun of zoomies. I don't know the number of practically anyone I call today, I don't need to. You can make a case that I SHOULD, but just like 99.99% of everyone out there I never dial a number anymore.

not only did we memorize dozens of numbers easily, I still remember all my friends' old numbers

>>515579930
Oldfag here, I delivered back then. It isn't hard, most places the addresses have a logic once you know that it is easy. If your town has numbered streets the addresses correlate making it even easier.

I did it again just before COVID to earn some extra cash, and my manager treated me like I had a super power and all the other drivers just couldn't understand how I could navigate a grid layout with numbered streets

>>515580711
Kurt Vonnegut once said that humans are dancing animals. We aren't designed to sit in a chair and watch a screen.

You remember the three of four you most used. For the others there was a thing called pen and paper, ie. your phone book, journal or random notepad. We need to go back, this generation is beyond retarded. Everyone has a phone and they use it for selfies or streaming instead of talking to childhood friends or neighbours. Pure unadulterated faggotry.

I still remember everyone's phone numbers from when I was a kid.
What the zoomers aren't taking into account is that home phone numbers were a lot easier to remember than mobile. I lived in a small village so you only needed to remember 3 digits per person.

>>515581636
It's 4 numbers, and I still remember all the phone numbers that I memorized as a child. Even though none of those people even have those numbers anymore.

>>515578719
my boomer parents had to memorize Homer in ancient Greek at school
my generation (millennials) didn't even study the original. only "easy" ancient greek texts.
the next generation can't even read

>>515577819 (OP)
Before everyone had cell phones, there were maybe like 3 area codes tops you had to remember if you were unlucky (most of the time it’s just the 1).
The three digits that follow would denote what city you're in if it's small and what section of the city you were in if it's large. Most of the people you cared about would share those three digits as well.

So that just leaves 4 digits you'd have to remember for the majority of people. 7 if they lived out of town.

>>515579008
Getting on battle.net the first time thinking I was the best Starcraft player in the world and then getting my ass handed to me over and over by Koreans was a huge coming of age lesson in humility for me

>high school
>high as shit
>call my friend whose last 4 digits were "9115"
>accidentally call 911 somehow
>answer the door to 4 cops and have to explain it was a mistake without them realizing I'm high
Good times

>>515580711
It baffles zoomers when I tell them how they can get across the states just using the numbers on highway signs.

>>515581977
>It's 4 numbers
Depends where you live

I used to have memorized the IP's of my favorite quake servers.

>>515577819 (OP)
We didn't have to memorize the entire number, usually just the last 4 digits as most people had landlines and the area code was the same in a given region. It's only recently we've had to dial a 10 digit number.

>>515578514
Plot twist, it's IPv6

>>515578198
Brainlet problems. I still remember family phone numbers from when I was a little kid that haven't been useful to me in decades.

It's pretty easy to memorize things if you know how.
Just try this for example: 8675-309

You should have at least a couple of important numbers memorized because having your phone, wallet and car keys stolen/lost is a real possibility and what are your options at that point beyond relying on the police? This has happened to me and I would've been absolutely fucked if I couldn't remember anyone's number.

>>515582852
>Getting on battle.net the first time thinking I was the best Starcraft player in the world and then getting my ass handed to me over and over by Koreans was a huge coming of age lesson in humility for me
You would have had to specifically select the SEA servers and deal with like ~200 ping every match. If you had a Western gamertag they would troll you with constant 6pools, proxy rax and other shenanegins. There was this one protoss GM that has like an 85% win rate doing this obnoxious immortal rush, and would micro the piss out of them into prisms so you couldn't kill them. pretty sure most of his losses were base trades too, it was funny as fuck to watch

I casually roll GM's in custom games while piss drunk though, also comical

>>515577819 (OP)
I still remember my home number rand the home numbers of 3 of my friends from the 90s.

>>515580580
Then they added 281 and you had to dial 10.

>>515579930
you don't know basically any street in your hometown? that seems super weird to me

>>515577819 (OP)
I still know all my childhood friend's phone numbers, I mean there's only 5 but still.

>>515577819 (OP)
Moms and Dads work numbers
5 Friends numbers
1 Aunt

European numbers are way easier like you had an area code like 01 then it was just like stuff 209-912 and if you lived in the same area the number was just 209 912

I was always amazed at the American TV ads showing 111-222-ADAM I never got that until mobile phones came along and I was like ahhh everyone must be using these fancy numberpads.

I had a rotary phone until 2002 when I got Internet and the ISP gave us a wireless one

My Grandma used a ISKRA ATA II and we used a Iskra ETA 32

>>515577819 (OP)
I probably memorized about 7 or 8 phone numbers when I was younger, before cellphones.

>>515585479
>>515585654
Hivemind

>>515585662
Ah fuck I forgot the picture.

>>515585662
not in germany, i still remember my first phone number, 01624232041

0118 999 881 999 119 725

I still just type phone numbers that I know into my phone instead of setting a contact.

Zoomers really do have smaller brains and it's not just the brown ones.

>>515577819 (OP)
We used to carry around a little booklet to write down numbers and eventually you dial the same number enough that you just remember it.
Combine that with the fact that on lan lines you didn't need to type the area code if it was the same as yours.

I still know my parents cell phone number and home landline phone number by heart because it was etched into my brain before I got a cell phone. Can't be assed to remember my sibling's current numbers or anyone else's.

>>515586034
because theyre dumb spics

>>515577819 (OP)
actually that shit was pretty hard

>>515577819 (OP)
Wait until they realize that we all know what (800)-588-2300 is.

>>515585766
Grandmas and yeah just like these guys.

>>515585479
>>515585654
I still remember all the numers.

I also remember stuff I used often like in HOMM 2 you'd get a black dragon by typing 32167

And countless cheats from Doom, Doom 2, Duke Nukem, Age of Empires 1-2, Star craft, Warcraft, Sims, GTA 3, GTA 2, Quake and HL and so on...

I still remember my Pin number for my first 2 creditcards, I still remember my goverment ID number when I had to use it a lot as a student but they changed recently from JMBG to OIB and now I don't know it.

06221 ... i forgot those german numbers

>>515577819 (OP)
I've got my home phone, my bank details, my gym number all memorised after all these years. Zoomers are brown retards.

>>515577819 (OP)
Back in the day, numbers were not as spread out as today due to churn, so it was common to share country code, area code, local number with a lot of people. Even today, you can just type the last digits of a phone number and some carriers will fill the rest with your number
>friend's number is +1 100 1212 1530
>your number is +1 100 1212 6345
>just dial 1530 to call your friend

>>515578617
>281
henlo

>>515585906
Can you separate them what do they mean? I'm pretty sure thats a mobile phone numbers we're talking about landlines here.
Pretty sure it was Vodaphone from all my time watching German TV.

>>515585614
This. I've seen people completely mindbroken when there's a diversion not on the satnav. It's pathetic.

>>515586790
162 was heidelberg mobile numbers, 06221 is their landlines

>>515586639
now we have number portability and have to dial 50 numbers to call anyone
i think it was a net negative

>>515577819 (OP)
8675309

I've had the same number for over 10 years and I don't know it.

When someone told me a number I would just repeat it once and say “got it” as if I had it instantly memorized like Robert De Niro in Heat. Then I would completely forget the number 30 seconds later and have no way to contact the person until I saw them again.

>>515586960
As far as I know there no area codes for Mobile phone numbers in Europe. Thats just the operator assigned ones. Not that it means anything since they enabled transfers and cross operator costs are now zero.

>>515577819 (OP)
imagine we used to remember every single edible plant in our region, and remember constellations for navigation, and remember which deer trail led where. it's almost like we're handing over all our self sufficiency to technology in exchange for comfort and convenience.

now we're developing sentient technology, and weapon systems.

where did the vision for these technologies come from? why did they only arise recently given humanities possible 300k year existance? the industrial revolution began only ~300 years ago our whole way of life as a species has changed in such a short time compared to our overall existance and success as a species.

it's almost like there is something that can't interface with this world. that found a way to communicate with us, and has since been teaching us to do this. you know how many scientific breakthroughs are inspired by some vision received in an altered state of mind?

there is something outside this world, that wants in, it is spiteful, it sees us enjoying life and all it can do it watch. it wants in, and it is tricking us to kill ourselves while building a mind and body for it.

it's ok i'm sure it just wants to be friends.

>>515577819 (OP)
GIRLS USED TO WRITE THEIR NUMBERS ON PIECES OF PAPER AND PASS IT DISCRETELY WITH A SEXY LOOK

>>515577819 (OP)
I remembed ~6 numbers off the top of my head before mobile phones came along, now the only one I still remember is the house I grew up in and left 25 years ago.

>>515587276
that's what deutsch telekom gave me for t-1 in 2000, in heidelberg

>>515587244
Well at least you followed the 30 second rule better than McCauley himself did.

>>515578617
Enjoy you're pizzas, Mike Jones.

>>515577819 (OP)
I know my old disconnected home phone number from 30 years ago but don't know my current cell number
AMA

>>515587286
>we used to remember every single edible plant in our region
That really isn't very difficult

>>515579926
You mean 7 digits.
In North America, phone numbers go as follow:
1: NA
234: Area code
567: specific sector within that area code
8900: randomly assigned
1-234-567-8900 meant you only had to remember 567-8900

>>515577819 (OP)
I only vaguely remember my phone number now after years of having it because I literally never use it, I have no friends whatsoever and no family outside of my mother and sister, they're the only ones who ever contact me and even then they almost never phone me, they just text me. The only people who know my number outside of them are the hospital.

i dont think ive ever manually typed in a phone number, not even to add one to my phone's list of contacts. my mom filled out the family's contact info on my iphone when I was like 11 and ive continued to port over that same info from phone to phone over the years.

>>515577819 (OP)
I only remember mama's phone number.

>>515577819 (OP)
wait until you tell them about the "Yellow Pages"

>>515586644
>with mules
and 4wheelers

>>515577819 (OP)
i remember my gym password which is like a phone number

>>515578617
I still remember 867-5309

>>515578617
>who?
MIKE JONES!

I still remember my home's phone number after more than 20 years.

>>515580867
https://youtu.be/v6kSQ5eOwT8?si=N1FfJIMk2-IMe1K7

>>515587286
>there is something outside this world, that wants in, it is spiteful, it sees us enjoying life and all it can do it watch. it wants in, and it is tricking us to kill ourselves while building a mind and body for it.
>it's ok i'm sure it just wants to be friends

C.S. Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

>>515582315
Based.
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἥ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἔθηκε
πολλὰς δ᾽ ἱφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή,
ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε
Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς.

I inevitably end up memorizing any numbers I use on a regular basis. Hell I know the numbers on my business debit cards by memory by now.

>>515585377
Good point....and nobody seems to carry cash anymore like retards with no foresight

>>515580580
Was going to post this. Most people weren't calling out of there area, we had no need to enter an area code.

>>515590071
the phone company jew made it really expensive to call a different area code

Some numbers were easier than others to remember

>>515578198
I still remember the landline numbers of at least a dozen relatives and friends from my childhood in the 80s and 90s.

>>515577819 (OP)
the people already have the power to stop any tyranny by SIMPLY USING CASH AND LEAVING YOUR PHONE AT HOME sometimes
these two simple things destroy any surveillance plans
you already have the fucking power
it is YOU that chooses to continue using the grid to your own detriment
you already have the power right now
you have agency still
they just need your consent to implement it wholly, then having agency won't even matter

the current tech trend is for citizens to not hold or own information or organize it or remember it
they also do not store it on their own computers, but in a foreign cloud that tracks all changes in real time
they only have instantaneous ACCESS to information
people are not being conditioned to retain info or organize it for themselves

tptb are now waiting for anyone with a high amount of intellect and knowledge to die off, then they will just be left with the malleable, dumbed-down 'instantaneous access' population that can't put two and two together

USE FUCKING CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY YOU ARE IN
NEVER USE YOUR PHONE TO PAY

convenience will be your demise

>>515577819 (OP)
I still remember my original home number, likely cause it was extremely important for me to be able to call home for things.
Everything else, naw that shit is gone.

>>515577819 (OP)
Zoomers are the worst generation to ever live and I'm mortified I have to share a world with them.

>>515587244
Kek

>>515577819 (OP)
This is kind of like "how did pizza delivery people exist before gps"

>>515577819 (OP)
If a guy knew your girlfriends phone number it was fisticuffs. Like a public cuckolding.

>>515593950
i once quoted a guy's number to him from memory and i think he realized in that moment just what he meant to me

>>515577819 (OP)
Zoomers are going to get dumpstered just like poor forgotten Gen X, aren't they?

>>515593898
>This is kind of like "how did pizza delivery people exist before gps"
This gets so many tourists into trouble here, albeit with google maps etc. They laugh at our insistence on them buying paper maps and a compass, then they venture outside of the green and their phones stop working, usually well before they've even left the green in a lot of areas.

Then they expect us to come and find them like we don't have better shit to be doing.

>>515577819 (OP)
They also wrote them down
Lol wtf I was a literal babby in those days and even I remember that

>>515595261
kek

>>515577819 (OP)
When my friend got into horrific traffic incident he was able to recite his full personal data and phone numbers of relatives while being in medical coma.

>>515579930
Just takes practice, not that hard especially when it's your home town. I can mostly remember a 600km radius, medium distance driver.

>>515581069
I could call Lisa Smith right the fuck now if I wanted

>>515577819 (OP)
I want to see a zoomer use a rotary telephone sometime.

>>515579930
I was a paramedic and got to work with some of those old guys circa 2007. I knew the main streets and remembered routes once I took a trip once.
It was amazing to see the old guys either immediately know or to reference a map and then say 'it's the road off of X street just before X street.'
Another tier of our memory lost to technology. GPS was one step. "AI" is another step.

>>515595261
Idk, i never take a compass into taiga. Hill and river patterns are more than enough, really.
Couple of years ago a pair of women around 25yo were lost in taiga while on a shroom/weed trip. They were back in three days or so just following the river and shroom spirits.
I bet local tigers were laughing their asses off these two idiots.

>>515577819 (OP)
Wait, did zoomers not even learn their parents' phone numbers when they were kds? What if their battery dies? What if they lose their phone and they get lost?
It's no wonder they have a panic attack when they lose access to their phone.

>>515585930
Same. My sister isn't even in my phone, and my dad is only in there because of the one time I used his senior citizen parking pass at a state park and saw the rangers waiting by the car, so I had him text me "Boat sprung a leak just before State Bridge, can you grab the car and pick me up?"

>>515578617
647 11 11

>>515597132
they also set up their phones to hide phone calls from non-contacts which means you even if they know the number they can't call their friends with a stranger's phone

>>515596963
AI is a huge step, I know people at work who have surrendered their entire brains to AI. They send me AI slop all the time and I tell them all the time to just send me the fucking information they want me to have instead of processing it through AI, because it's fucking autocomplete that literally spits out the most statistically likely looking lies possible when it doesn't know something. I can't tell what they actually want to tell me and what's AI generated and have to pick apart the probable hallucinations myself.
Of course they probably process my messages through AI too and get some distorted view.

>>515577819 (OP)
Yeah, well, brain rots away when you use google for everything. In the 80s and 90s I remembered phone numbers for 30+ people, dozens of BBS's, and remembered a number just by being told it. Could also give perfect directions across a 40 mile area to a place based on street names and dozens of minor landmarks. People can't do that today because they rely on GPS and don't pay attention when driving.

>>515597610
The thought of this really horrifies me.
I am very, very analog in my ways of thinking and no ai can take my job.
But what of my kids, what kind of world would they inherit?

>>515580970
im 5'7 and i never had any problems getting laid and never got called short once until tiktok was a thing. the only time i was ever self conscious about my height is when i didn't make the team for college basketball lol.

>>515577819 (OP)
Zoomers don't know about Yellow Pages and address books kek

>>515578617
WHO?!

>>515578198
I like being lazy these days, but It wasn't so bad memorizing numbers.
Most of the numbers I cared about were local anyhow, so seven digits isn't hard.

>>515597011
>I bet local tigers were laughing their asses
Surely you mean "local taigas"

>>515597778
>Could also give perfect directions across a 40 mile area to a place based on street names and dozens of minor landmarks. People can't do that today because they rely on GPS and don't pay attention when driving.
This here is a simple example of my city's road map. Here even gps is not a reliable source of direction.
Fuck the brain rot.

>>515577819 (OP)
How do they know their own number?

>>515580580
yeah you did. you were just poor so you couldn't afford long distance

>>515598276
>Surely you mean "local taigas"
I meant to say "cats", you don't say their name often.
The stripy kitties, also spotty ones and lynxes, who are harmless.

>>515597845
AI doesn't need to be able to actually do your job to take your job, it just needs to convince some dumb executive that it can do your job.
It's a fucking tar pit for high-level thinkers like successful CEOs because it generates the kind of cursory information that they think "great, looks right to me". They don't get into the weeds, that's for peons to do. Doesn't matter if one of them tells you it's not working in some long and boring way because it looked good for you, so your subordinates are just making excuses. These types of people are exactly the ones I see falling for the meme the hardest.
Indians are the same way, they will work harder at appearing to work than actually working, so anyone taking a high level glance will go "wow, good job". Meanwhile they're busy making their SQL statements 20 times longer than they need to be so they look "smart".
Exactly why lots of companies ditched their IT and development teams for street shitters, and exactly why AI will "replace" a lot of tech jobs.

>>515598496
I was just making a "tiger" / "taiga" pun because they sound similar in english lol
These guys are the best snow cat

>>515598121
Greek and roman philosophers worried that writing shit down would erode peoples memories. And Im noz going "OMG ALWAYS THE SAME" im saying they were right. People used to memorize EVERYTHING. Bards didnt have scrolls with stories and songs, they just had that shit all memorized, text, notes etc.
Hell I worked as a tour guide in my teens/early 20s, I had hours of text memorized and probably could rattle it off again the moment I stand there again

>>515598917
Got it (in time).
These are indeed the best cats. Shame we don't have them here. Our local wild cat is boring and only interested in eating and fucking housecats.

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