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[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

This was around sporadically in the US Great Plains until maybe the 1990s. And calling outside your city but within the same area code was an eight-digit call:

1 + seven-digit local phone number

I still can’t quite believe it, especially when my city added a 6th area code a few years back.

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