>>23287676Honestly i only knew my home phone number and my friendsEverything else i had to refer to the little list next to the phone
>>23287677A single friends*
>>23287676I knew a dozen phone numbers easy and a couple of server IPs for games
>>23287676>implying 281-330-8004 is hard to rememberthey need to get it together
>>23287676in ancient times people had the whole Bhagavad Gita in memory
>>23287676convenience ruins the human mind
>>23287680Omg Jacob! This is the one friend whos number i remember You still have my starcraft cd but you can keep it. The happiness you got in stealing it was greater than the sadness i felt in losing to Koreans. So the overall happiness in the world went up
You only had to remember 6 numbers because your friends would have same area code as you likely
>>23287681
>>23287681also:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)
>>23287676My mom taught me our home phone number with a little jingle when I was in kindergarten. I'd write someone's number down like a friend but after calling them like 3 or 4 times I'd have it memorized. It's not really hard. It would probably blow their mind knowing back in the day people memorized entire books for religious reasons.
It was super easy to remember phone numbers when I was a kid because long distance costed money so all the phone numbers you called were within a single area code. Associating a 4 digit code with someone was super easy.
>>23287676Remembered some. Wrote down all of them.
>>23287676I’m persobally amazed by the pizza delivery drivers of the past that didn’t have gps navigators
>>23287676when all your family and friends lived around you, you only really needed to know the last 4, as well. if you were spread out enough (my highschool had kids from about 4 different areas) you also just learned the area code and first 3 of a couple places, and the 4 was important. everybody can remember 4 things easily
>>23287680Mike Jones, Mike Jones.
>>23287687I sat my kids down when they started kindergarten and didnt let them leave until they could recite both phone numbers and our home address.
I still remember all my friends' numbers from the 90s. It's like remembering their names. Easy.Most of us who lived close had the same first 3 digits, so all you were remembering was the two pair following the first three.And if you first three were say 262, a few miles away they might have 264 or 266, so you'd just have to remember one additional number.And if you really needed to, you could put them on speed dial, but that was an annoying process. Anyone you called often enough was someone who's number you could type in blindfolded.My girlfriend's number was 219-2101, mine was 219-7219.It's been 30 years, but I won't ever forget.
>>23287680>281-330-8004Hit Mike Jones up because Mike Jones, Mike Jones
867-5309 is the only number you need
>>23287676This is not real. It is too stupid to be real.>>23287681Shut your paki mouth.
>>23287690I remember ordering pizza in the 90s and early 2000s, and sometimes they'd ask you the nearest cross street, and you'd just say "take laurel about a mile past the drug store, then turn right on cherry, we're two blocks down" and they'd remember that.
This is what happens when you cede your entire frontal lobe to your phone. Go back even further and most people could recite whole bible verses too.
>>23287677i can still remember probably ten phone numbers from the 1990's ish. once it's in there it sticks. 7 digits is nothing.
>>23287680We didn't have area codes back then kidIt was only seven numbers you had to memorize in Houston any ways
>>23287690This is why taxis used to have such a fierce monopoly, because it required extensive training to have all the routes memorized and taxi companies were extremely protective of their methodology. With GPS any dumbfuck can be a "taxi" now.
>>23287676every zoomer I've ever met is a low IQ wannabe nigger basically
>>23287699GPS maps on phones for driving is the one that really gets me. there is a specific area of the brain for this and you should never need directions to go somewhere in your own town. meanwhile we have adults who follow GPS directions to get home.
>>23287691This man was there
Write to me Stick Stickly, PO Box 963New York City, New York State10108!Scruff McGruffChicago, Illinois60652
>>23287699>Go back even further and most people could recite whole bible verses too.I can do that now, with a few verses. There's people in my church who can do way more than me too.
>>23287696Jenny, jenny?
>>23287704I set my gps even if I dont need it because it will let me know if traffic is bad.
>>23287676I still remember all of my friend's numbers that I called as a kid and I am almost 40. But I don't see the point in making fun of zoomies. I don't know the number of practically anyone I call today, I don't need to. You can make a case that I SHOULD, but just like 99.99% of everyone out there I never dial a number anymore.
not only did we memorize dozens of numbers easily, I still remember all my friends' old numbers
>>23287690Oldfag here, I delivered back then. It isn't hard, most places the addresses have a logic once you know that it is easy. If your town has numbered streets the addresses correlate making it even easier. I did it again just before COVID to earn some extra cash, and my manager treated me like I had a super power and all the other drivers just couldn't understand how I could navigate a grid layout with numbered streets
>>23287704Kurt Vonnegut once said that humans are dancing animals. We aren't designed to sit in a chair and watch a screen.
You remember the three of four you most used. For the others there was a thing called pen and paper, ie. your phone book, journal or random notepad. We need to go back, this generation is beyond retarded. Everyone has a phone and they use it for selfies or streaming instead of talking to childhood friends or neighbours. Pure unadulterated faggotry.
I still remember everyone's phone numbers from when I was a kid. What the zoomers aren't taking into account is that home phone numbers were a lot easier to remember than mobile. I lived in a small village so you only needed to remember 3 digits per person.
>>23287715It's 4 numbers, and I still remember all the phone numbers that I memorized as a child. Even though none of those people even have those numbers anymore.
>>23287681my boomer parents had to memorize Homer in ancient Greek at schoolmy generation (millennials) didn't even study the original. only "easy" ancient greek texts.the next generation can't even read
>>23287676Before everyone had cell phones, there were maybe like 3 area codes tops you had to remember if you were unlucky (most of the time it’s just the 1).The three digits that follow would denote what city you're in if it's small and what section of the city you were in if it's large. Most of the people you cared about would share those three digits as well.So that just leaves 4 digits you'd have to remember for the majority of people. 7 if they lived out of town.
>>23287683Getting on battle.net the first time thinking I was the best Starcraft player in the world and then getting my ass handed to me over and over by Koreans was a huge coming of age lesson in humility for me
>high school>high as shit>call my friend whose last 4 digits were "9115">accidentally call 911 somehow>answer the door to 4 cops and have to explain it was a mistake without them realizing I'm highGood times
>>23287704It baffles zoomers when I tell them how they can get across the states just using the numbers on highway signs.
>>23287716>It's 4 numbersDepends where you live
I used to have memorized the IP's of my favorite quake servers.
>>23287676We didn't have to memorize the entire number, usually just the last 4 digits as most people had landlines and the area code was the same in a given region. It's only recently we've had to dial a 10 digit number. >>23287679Plot twist, it's IPv6
>>23287677Brainlet problems. I still remember family phone numbers from when I was a little kid that haven't been useful to me in decades.
It's pretty easy to memorize things if you know how.Just try this for example: 8675-309
You should have at least a couple of important numbers memorized because having your phone, wallet and car keys stolen/lost is a real possibility and what are your options at that point beyond relying on the police? This has happened to me and I would've been absolutely fucked if I couldn't remember anyone's number.
>>23287719>Getting on battle.net the first time thinking I was the best Starcraft player in the world and then getting my ass handed to me over and over by Koreans was a huge coming of age lesson in humility for meYou would have had to specifically select the SEA servers and deal with like ~200 ping every match. If you had a Western gamertag they would troll you with constant 6pools, proxy rax and other shenanegins. There was this one protoss GM that has like an 85% win rate doing this obnoxious immortal rush, and would micro the piss out of them into prisms so you couldn't kill them. pretty sure most of his losses were base trades too, it was funny as fuck to watchI casually roll GM's in custom games while piss drunk though, also comical
>>23287676I still remember my home number rand the home numbers of 3 of my friends from the 90s.
>>23287701Then they added 281 and you had to dial 10.
>>23287690you don't know basically any street in your hometown? that seems super weird to me
>>23287676I still know all my childhood friend's phone numbers, I mean there's only 5 but still.
>>23287676Moms and Dads work numbers5 Friends numbers1 AuntEuropean numbers are way easier like you had an area code like 01 then it was just like stuff 209-912 and if you lived in the same area the number was just 209 912I was always amazed at the American TV ads showing 111-222-ADAM I never got that until mobile phones came along and I was like ahhh everyone must be using these fancy numberpads.I had a rotary phone until 2002 when I got Internet and the ISP gave us a wireless one My Grandma used a ISKRA ATA II and we used a Iskra ETA 32
>>23287676I probably memorized about 7 or 8 phone numbers when I was younger, before cellphones.
>>23287729>>23287732Hivemind
>>23287733Ah fuck I forgot the picture.
>>23287696
>>23287733not in germany, i still remember my first phone number, 01624232041
0118 999 881 999 119 725
I still just type phone numbers that I know into my phone instead of setting a contact.
Zoomers really do have smaller brains and it's not just the brown ones.
>>23287676We used to carry around a little booklet to write down numbers and eventually you dial the same number enough that you just remember it. Combine that with the fact that on lan lines you didn't need to type the area code if it was the same as yours.
I still know my parents cell phone number and home landline phone number by heart because it was etched into my brain before I got a cell phone. Can't be assed to remember my sibling's current numbers or anyone else's.
>>23287741because theyre dumb spics
>>23287676actually that shit was pretty hard
>>23287676Wait until they realize that we all know what (800)-588-2300 is.
>>23287736Grandmas and yeah just like these guys.>>23287729>>23287732I still remember all the numers.I also remember stuff I used often like in HOMM 2 you'd get a black dragon by typing 32167And countless cheats from Doom, Doom 2, Duke Nukem, Age of Empires 1-2, Star craft, Warcraft, Sims, GTA 3, GTA 2, Quake and HL and so on... I still remember my Pin number for my first 2 creditcards, I still remember my goverment ID number when I had to use it a lot as a student but they changed recently from JMBG to OIB and now I don't know it.
06221 ... i forgot those german numbers
>>23287676I've got my home phone, my bank details, my gym number all memorised after all these years. Zoomers are brown retards.
>>23287676Back in the day, numbers were not as spread out as today due to churn, so it was common to share country code, area code, local number with a lot of people. Even today, you can just type the last digits of a phone number and some carriers will fill the rest with your number>friend's number is +1 100 1212 1530>your number is +1 100 1212 6345>just dial 1530 to call your friend
>>23287680>281henlo
>>23287738Can you separate them what do they mean? I'm pretty sure thats a mobile phone numbers we're talking about landlines here.Pretty sure it was Vodaphone from all my time watching German TV.
>>23287731This. I've seen people completely mindbroken when there's a diversion not on the satnav. It's pathetic.
>>23287752162 was heidelberg mobile numbers, 06221 is their landlines
>>23287750now we have number portability and have to dial 50 numbers to call anyonei think it was a net negative
>>232876768675309
I've had the same number for over 10 years and I don't know it.
When someone told me a number I would just repeat it once and say “got it” as if I had it instantly memorized like Robert De Niro in Heat. Then I would completely forget the number 30 seconds later and have no way to contact the person until I saw them again.
>>23287754As far as I know there no area codes for Mobile phone numbers in Europe. Thats just the operator assigned ones. Not that it means anything since they enabled transfers and cross operator costs are now zero.
>>23287676imagine we used to remember every single edible plant in our region, and remember constellations for navigation, and remember which deer trail led where. it's almost like we're handing over all our self sufficiency to technology in exchange for comfort and convenience. now we're developing sentient technology, and weapon systems.where did the vision for these technologies come from? why did they only arise recently given humanities possible 300k year existance? the industrial revolution began only ~300 years ago our whole way of life as a species has changed in such a short time compared to our overall existance and success as a species. it's almost like there is something that can't interface with this world. that found a way to communicate with us, and has since been teaching us to do this. you know how many scientific breakthroughs are inspired by some vision received in an altered state of mind?there is something outside this world, that wants in, it is spiteful, it sees us enjoying life and all it can do it watch. it wants in, and it is tricking us to kill ourselves while building a mind and body for it.it's ok i'm sure it just wants to be friends.
>>23287676GIRLS USED TO WRITE THEIR NUMBERS ON PIECES OF PAPER AND PASS IT DISCRETELY WITH A SEXY LOOK
>>23287676I remembed ~6 numbers off the top of my head before mobile phones came along, now the only one I still remember is the house I grew up in and left 25 years ago.
>>23287759that's what deutsch telekom gave me for t-1 in 2000, in heidelberg
>>23287758Well at least you followed the 30 second rule better than McCauley himself did.
>>23287680Enjoy you're pizzas, Mike Jones.
>>23287676I know my old disconnected home phone number from 30 years ago but don't know my current cell numberAMA
>>23287760>we used to remember every single edible plant in our regionThat really isn't very difficult
>>23287688You mean 7 digits.In North America, phone numbers go as follow:1: NA234: Area code567: specific sector within that area code8900: randomly assigned1-234-567-8900 meant you only had to remember 567-8900
>>23287676I only vaguely remember my phone number now after years of having it because I literally never use it, I have no friends whatsoever and no family outside of my mother and sister, they're the only ones who ever contact me and even then they almost never phone me, they just text me. The only people who know my number outside of them are the hospital.
i dont think ive ever manually typed in a phone number, not even to add one to my phone's list of contacts. my mom filled out the family's contact info on my iphone when I was like 11 and ive continued to port over that same info from phone to phone over the years.
>>23287676I only remember mama's phone number.
>>23287676wait until you tell them about the "Yellow Pages"
>>23287751>with mulesand 4wheelers
>>23287676i remember my gym password which is like a phone number
>>23287680I still remember 867-5309
>>23287680>who?MIKE JONES!
I still remember my home's phone number after more than 20 years.
>>23287706https://youtu.be/v6kSQ5eOwT8?si=N1FfJIMk2-IMe1K7
>>23287760>there is something outside this world, that wants in, it is spiteful, it sees us enjoying life and all it can do it watch. it wants in, and it is tricking us to kill ourselves while building a mind and body for it.>it's ok i'm sure it just wants to be friendsC.S. Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"
>>23287717Based.μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἥ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἔθηκεπολλὰς δ᾽ ἱφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψενἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσινοἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή,ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντεἈτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς.
I inevitably end up memorizing any numbers I use on a regular basis. Hell I know the numbers on my business debit cards by memory by now.
>>23287727Good point....and nobody seems to carry cash anymore like retards with no foresight
>>23287701Was going to post this. Most people weren't calling out of there area, we had no need to enter an area code.
>>23287783the phone company jew made it really expensive to call a different area code
Some numbers were easier than others to remember
>>23287677I still remember the landline numbers of at least a dozen relatives and friends from my childhood in the 80s and 90s.
>>23287676the people already have the power to stop any tyranny by SIMPLY USING CASH AND LEAVING YOUR PHONE AT HOME sometimesthese two simple things destroy any surveillance plansyou already have the fucking powerit is YOU that chooses to continue using the grid to your own detrimentyou already have the power right nowyou have agency stillthey just need your consent to implement it wholly, then having agency won't even matterthe current tech trend is for citizens to not hold or own information or organize it or remember itthey also do not store it on their own computers, but in a foreign cloud that tracks all changes in real timethey only have instantaneous ACCESS to informationpeople are not being conditioned to retain info or organize it for themselvestptb are now waiting for anyone with a high amount of intellect and knowledge to die off, then they will just be left with the malleable, dumbed-down 'instantaneous access' population that can't put two and two togetherUSE FUCKING CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY YOU ARE INNEVER USE YOUR PHONE TO PAY
convenience will be your demise
>>23287676I still remember my original home number, likely cause it was extremely important for me to be able to call home for things.Everything else, naw that shit is gone.
>>23287676Zoomers are the worst generation to ever live and I'm mortified I have to share a world with them.
>>23287758Kek
>>23287676This is kind of like "how did pizza delivery people exist before gps"
>>23287676If a guy knew your girlfriends phone number it was fisticuffs. Like a public cuckolding.
>>23287793i once quoted a guy's number to him from memory and i think he realized in that moment just what he meant to me
>>23287676Zoomers are going to get dumpstered just like poor forgotten Gen X, aren't they?
>>23287792>This is kind of like "how did pizza delivery people exist before gps"This gets so many tourists into trouble here, albeit with google maps etc. They laugh at our insistence on them buying paper maps and a compass, then they venture outside of the green and their phones stop working, usually well before they've even left the green in a lot of areas. Then they expect us to come and find them like we don't have better shit to be doing.
>>23287676They also wrote them downLol wtf I was a literal babby in those days and even I remember that
>>23287796kek
>>23287676When my friend got into horrific traffic incident he was able to recite his full personal data and phone numbers of relatives while being in medical coma.
>>23287690Just takes practice, not that hard especially when it's your home town. I can mostly remember a 600km radius, medium distance driver.
>>23287711I could call Lisa Smith right the fuck now if I wanted
>>23287676I want to see a zoomer use a rotary telephone sometime.
>>23287690I was a paramedic and got to work with some of those old guys circa 2007. I knew the main streets and remembered routes once I took a trip once.It was amazing to see the old guys either immediately know or to reference a map and then say 'it's the road off of X street just before X street.'Another tier of our memory lost to technology. GPS was one step. "AI" is another step.
>>23287796Idk, i never take a compass into taiga. Hill and river patterns are more than enough, really.Couple of years ago a pair of women around 25yo were lost in taiga while on a shroom/weed trip. They were back in three days or so just following the river and shroom spirits.I bet local tigers were laughing their asses off these two idiots.
>>23287676Wait, did zoomers not even learn their parents' phone numbers when they were kds? What if their battery dies? What if they lose their phone and they get lost?It's no wonder they have a panic attack when they lose access to their phone.
>>23287740Same. My sister isn't even in my phone, and my dad is only in there because of the one time I used his senior citizen parking pass at a state park and saw the rangers waiting by the car, so I had him text me "Boat sprung a leak just before State Bridge, can you grab the car and pick me up?"
>>23287680647 11 11
>>23287805they also set up their phones to hide phone calls from non-contacts which means you even if they know the number they can't call their friends with a stranger's phone
>>23287803AI is a huge step, I know people at work who have surrendered their entire brains to AI. They send me AI slop all the time and I tell them all the time to just send me the fucking information they want me to have instead of processing it through AI, because it's fucking autocomplete that literally spits out the most statistically likely looking lies possible when it doesn't know something. I can't tell what they actually want to tell me and what's AI generated and have to pick apart the probable hallucinations myself.Of course they probably process my messages through AI too and get some distorted view.
>>23287676Yeah, well, brain rots away when you use google for everything. In the 80s and 90s I remembered phone numbers for 30+ people, dozens of BBS's, and remembered a number just by being told it. Could also give perfect directions across a 40 mile area to a place based on street names and dozens of minor landmarks. People can't do that today because they rely on GPS and don't pay attention when driving.
>>23287809The thought of this really horrifies me.I am very, very analog in my ways of thinking and no ai can take my job.But what of my kids, what kind of world would they inherit?
>>23287707im 5'7 and i never had any problems getting laid and never got called short once until tiktok was a thing. the only time i was ever self conscious about my height is when i didn't make the team for college basketball lol.
>>23287676Zoomers don't know about Yellow Pages and address books kek
>>23287680WHO?!
>>23287677I like being lazy these days, but It wasn't so bad memorizing numbers.Most of the numbers I cared about were local anyhow, so seven digits isn't hard.
>>23287804>I bet local tigers were laughing their assesSurely you mean "local taigas"
>>23287810>Could also give perfect directions across a 40 mile area to a place based on street names and dozens of minor landmarks. People can't do that today because they rely on GPS and don't pay attention when driving.This here is a simple example of my city's road map. Here even gps is not a reliable source of direction.Fuck the brain rot.
>>23287676How do they know their own number?
>>23287701yeah you did. you were just poor so you couldn't afford long distance
>>23287816>Surely you mean "local taigas"I meant to say "cats", you don't say their name often.The stripy kitties, also spotty ones and lynxes, who are harmless.
>>23287811AI doesn't need to be able to actually do your job to take your job, it just needs to convince some dumb executive that it can do your job.It's a fucking tar pit for high-level thinkers like successful CEOs because it generates the kind of cursory information that they think "great, looks right to me". They don't get into the weeds, that's for peons to do. Doesn't matter if one of them tells you it's not working in some long and boring way because it looked good for you, so your subordinates are just making excuses. These types of people are exactly the ones I see falling for the meme the hardest.Indians are the same way, they will work harder at appearing to work than actually working, so anyone taking a high level glance will go "wow, good job". Meanwhile they're busy making their SQL statements 20 times longer than they need to be so they look "smart".Exactly why lots of companies ditched their IT and development teams for street shitters, and exactly why AI will "replace" a lot of tech jobs.
>>23287820I was just making a "tiger" / "taiga" pun because they sound similar in english lol These guys are the best snow cat
>>23287814Greek and roman philosophers worried that writing shit down would erode peoples memories. And Im noz going "OMG ALWAYS THE SAME" im saying they were right. People used to memorize EVERYTHING. Bards didnt have scrolls with stories and songs, they just had that shit all memorized, text, notes etc.Hell I worked as a tour guide in my teens/early 20s, I had hours of text memorized and probably could rattle it off again the moment I stand there again
>>23287822Got it (in time).These are indeed the best cats. Shame we don't have them here. Our local wild cat is boring and only interested in eating and fucking housecats.
>we cant talk about peoples cognitive functions collapsing in real timeJannie you nigger
What is even the point of moving threads to /bant/? They just die every time.Either people are having a good discussion and it doesn't deserve to die or they aren't.
>>23287680Can anyone else rember a screamo version of that song?
Tranny jannies strike again. May the janny who moved this become best friends with a rope the next time they look into a mirror.>>23287676They probably can't even remember J.G. Wentworth's number, or be able to call Jenny Craig without looking it up. It's a sad world that we live in.
>>23287836was abroad 13 or so years ago, hanging out with some girls I'd met. we checked into a place and when they saw me take out my passport to fill in the info, they said "what, you haven't memorised your passport number yet?", so I did.took almost no effort, but I just hadn't bothered to do it.when I was 9, visiting my father abroad while he was working there, was in a bar and his friend/workmate challenged me to remember his 10 digit phone number, think he said it to me once or twice.i the challenge was for me to remember it for a week and he'd give me a bit of money.did so easily, but at the end of the week he wiggled out of paying me, think he claimed that he'd said "if you lose I'll pay you", or some other minor trick of words. whether that was true or not, felt cheap to trick a 9 year old out of a few coins.as with others in this thread, knew my feiends' numbers, later knew my credit card info by heart.still remember some phone numbers from the 80s.would rather be back there honestly.
>>23287803paramedics and old school professional taxi drivers have/had larger, more developed brain centres related with spatial awareness, to a significant degree. read an article/study about it some weeks ago.likely the old bards had larger memory/language centres
>>23287676zoomers can't even memorize passwords, they need password managers
>>23287821>while smiling and wobbling their heads from side to side
>>23287676 Was at bank today. Platform officer was cute 26 y/o girl former plane technician ended up in banking. joked she was last generation who did cursive, remembered phone numbers, could give direction or even know things by memory as passwords, SSN--or even how to give or understand coherent local directions.Had to baby 20 year olds along on such things in their account applications. Told me was discussing interest and many don't have a clue.
>>23288693i've started laughing out loud any time a zoomer tells me they don't know their own damn phone numberseems to really embarrass them
