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The good old days
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I hate that it uses spaces instead of 0
But you could also wait a little and it would space out the next word
Takes too long. Who has that second or two? I've typed the next two words in that time.
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It reached a stage where I can type messages without looking at the phone ne at all. Tactile keys has it's advantages too.
Yeah, silently texting during class with one hand. Those were good days. When I got a smart phone without keys I was pretty annoyed texting.
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I could still read this from the numbers alone. I’m close to death aren’t I?
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t9 was a gamechanger
You could seriously text without looking at your phone screen. It was awesome!
Tbh I could do that on a plain numeric keypad. I remember blindly texting under my desk in school. I wouldn't be able to do it nowadays though.
I am evidently young enough that I tried to figure it out using T9 in my head, and just got confused. So a partial win.
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Saved you a minute of staring at the keypad: It spells out “you are old”
I'm not old. I just know how to read numpad.
Thanks. This comment put my brain in the right mode to realize what the post was saying.
I had initially thought it was one of those things where you play a song with the DTMF tones that the keypad would make.... Silly me.
"You are old"
youareold
>:(
I am 18 and have owned 2 such phones. Where I grew up, it was kind of a luxury to own a smartphone in the early 2010s, so I've never really thought of these as some kind of ancient technology.
I'm 30 and remember my parents having these and my first two phones were Motorola razors. It was weird for most kids to have a phone until they could drive. Funny how quick it went from kids don't need phones, to well I guess they should if they're driving, to probably should be able to reach them anywhere but they don't need the smart one lol
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Not quite, with age comes experience. Learning from that experience is wisdom.
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The spaces should be 0
Yeah, but the whole five of us in the school could text each other without needing to take it out of our pockets so the teachers wouldn't take it away. Kids these days won't have those awesomely useless skills.
I can type an entire sentence without looking at my phone with swipe to text ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I can happily say that I never did this. Not because I'm not old but because I was poor as fuck. My first mobile phone with any sort of text based plan was a company provided BlackBerry.
I get it. I'm angry, but I get it.
What blows my mind is the (muscle) memory involved in this. I’m using touchscreen based phones for ~10-15 years and my last phones had a QWERTY keyboard (Hardware buttons!).
can still write texts like I never stopped using these phones. Using T9 I may be even faster than on my smartphone today. I really miss those tactile buttons…
We have some Cisco 8xxx wireless phones at work. Setting them up from factory is great, cause you gotta input the ssid and whatnot using the keypad. Muscle memory is right lol
I actually thought it was supposed to be a song played with the dial tones until I saw a comment about what it spelled out
Does that make me medium old? Old young?
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No I am not.
66 666 88
I can't even vote. How am I old?
I'm still not as fast with swipe as I was with t9... It was great
Yes, I am
66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 4 444 888 33 0 999 666 88 0 88 7 0 66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 555 33 8 0 999 666 88 0 3 666 9 66
I had a hunch that was confirmed with the first three letters.
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For my T9 homies
You really didn't even need to type all the numbers with nokia predictive text, it was a pretty goog precursor to autofill.
I'm so old I knew what the message said the moment I looked at it
Listen here you fucking guy...
The Nokia Code
And the battery lasted forever
I could still text using this by muscle memory
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