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SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

An old hack that not many knew was that you could tap the hang up switch to dial numbers. Example, tap 3 times = 3, tap 10 times = 0.

Rotary phones did the same thing which is why you had to wait for the whole thing to spin back, it was tapping the line to dial out.

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