The good old days

I hate that it uses spaces instead of 0

It reached a stage where I can type messages without looking at the phone ne at all. Tactile keys has it's advantages too.

I could still read this from the numbers alone. I’m close to death aren’t I?

t9 was a gamechanger

The morse code of our age.

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.

"You are old"

>:(

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.

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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 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.

No I am not.

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?

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…