What is *69? #millenials #millenial #genx #90snostalgia #80snostalgia

[glowfishin]

And it was way back 🎶 in the 90's 🎶

[missbeaussie]

Bro I thought they were asking what a 69 was and thought you were about to explain it 🤦‍♀️

[briantbmoth]

I remember calling the operator and just chitchatting when I was younger 😂. Then as I got older it was an automatic message and it wasn’t as fun.

[chey]

*67 is what you use when you do the prank calling

[Blessed-Teddy]

🤣I worked with a kid at a pizza restaurant I’ll never forget his first day, the old school phone rang. He looked at it scared and said what do I do? I was like answer it. He said how?!! And was looking at it like it was an alien..😂

[tarasensei]

I had a conversation with a HS student yesterday and she was like, "WAY BACK in the 80s and 90s...". OMG!! I felt so old. 😆 🤣 😂

[brneyeqtpie]

Anybody remember Moviephone? Lol I love confusing my kids by randomly saying "Thank you for calling Moviephone brought to by ..." and doing my best to copy the voice.

[hanaj]

😭😭😭😭. We are old af. If someone asks what is a land line, I quit

[CassVanCat]

I remember calling the sex lines with my friends off the payphones. We didn't know the numbers so you would try to spell out something like 1800 hot guys. And then there would be a very pg13 intro asking you for money and we'd all be 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

[aech]

*67 blocks your number when you call people. If you dial *67 before the number it will hide your caller ID from the person you are calling. This still works by the way

[catwhisperer]

I remember as a kid in the 70s there was a phone number you could call to listen to a kids' story. I loved that!

[suzbone]

Remember the local number you could call for time and temperature?

[homemakingwisdom]

Dose anyone remember how you got out of paying for a collect call? If basketball practice was done and you need to call to get picked up but you didn't want to pay a collect call.
Name- practice is over
They call and ask will you except a collect call from "practice is over, my mom would not except and hang up and come and get me.

[loufrando]

Remember looking in the newspaper to see the movie theatre schedule? I feel like that persisted until the early 2000’s? Jeez Louise. And dial up shared w the phone line aol-cd-that-came in the mail internet? Ngl, I was genuinely confused by wth the meant by the internet when they first told me about it. I was 16 and they said “people will want to buy ‘virtual space’ and people will want to ‘visit’ these virtual spaces. I was like, what is the value of virtual space? Sounds lame. 😂

[kyleaperrott]

When my dad was a kid they had party lines. The whole neighborhood essentially shared one phone line and you would have to wait for someone to get off the phone at their house to make a call from yours. Anyone in the neighborhood could also pick up and hear your call so it wasn’t the best haha. They only had to dial 4 digits back in the day too, at least when my dad was a kid in the 60’s in Vermont.

[RowdyBoy]

The phone book had like 2 pages of these types of codes that did a variety of things.

[Tarantio]

In the UK, we still have something like that on landlines ...

The number is 1471, I still use this at work when a person who I need to pass the details of to another department or colleague but they don't know their phone number.

When it gives you the last number that phoned you, you also get 2 options...
Press 1 to return the call at a slightly higher than normal charge rate, or press 2 to block this number.

[jmbewleyjr]

Wow I hadn’t thought about that one in a long time.
Thanks for the memories.

[annarae]

Lol we didn't call them landlines, it was just your telephone.

[kail]

I won't lie, as a youngster, I thought they were talking about something else-