Granted, the “nickel and diming” of hotline numbers (1900, 0900, etc) was nowhere as bad as today’s cash shops, but a lot of us simply forgot they were always hungry for all our money

Here’s a bunch other hotline ads for you to peruse - https://www.retromags.com/gallery/category/1729-telephone-hotlines/

PS: I never understood these american numbers that used letters, how were you supposed to know what was the actual number?

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.

    That’s brave to print that on Lemmy in times of LLMs, I give you that. It’s 20 years late too argue about that, but I do miss convenience of reliably printing whole paragraphs without even looking.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I mean I think it was basically a dictionary lookup, nothing like the negatives we see with today’s LLMs