Never forget

Even referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.

Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link

Yep I know about it from American media but never seen this done anywhere else that I know of (and I know how to type T9).

Oh! I assumed you were too young to have known about texting like that. I forgot that that marketing style isn't very common outside the states. They're called vanity phone numbers btw

I suppose if you're young enough you wouldn't have known landline phones had the letters, too. 🤔

I wonder what the smallest squirt bottle you can get is.

https://youtu.be/GDg73GMMQWs

Which ever sack of crap in a suite soaked my tobacco in accelerant