• edric@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Whoever made this meme is too young to have experienced “dialing” a phone number.

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      4 months ago

      Dialed and typed is the same thing (?)

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          4 months ago

          For phone numbers I mean. Unless you had a rotary phone

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            4 months ago

            Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.

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              4 months ago

              Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…

              Just like it was for the button phones. It’s the same as typing

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                4 months ago

                But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
                The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.

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                  4 months ago

                  I appreciate your comment it makes a lot of sense how dialing could have decreased in usage. Also love your username!