"...before the advent of smartphones “most of us could hold 20 or even 50 phone numbers in our head”. Today, I know precisely four..."
Anonymous (not verified) 17 Apr 19 10:09
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I have about 6, two of which are obsolete from childhood but which serve usfeully still for online passwords. How many do you know?

 

Also the rest of this article is very interesting:  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/17/would-life-be-happier-without-google-i-spent-a-week-finding-out

The younger generation will not realise how everyone back in the day answered their phone by stating the exchange and then the number eg. “West Forest 9891”

Wished more folks still had landlines - clear and crisp, and you know the client isn’t distracted by walking the dog when he’s trying to tell you how much he’d settle for.

you know the client isn’t distracted by walking the dog when he’s trying to tell you how much he’d settle for.

Or, in my case, the client would know his lawyer isn't distracted by walking the dog while trying to provide advice you are being charged for.

I can still remember my school best m8's home landline number 30 years on.  Haven't a bloody clue what our landline number or the 'zzettes mobile is though.

 

Off the top of my head I know my parents landline, my mum's mobile, my old flatmate's number, my granny's old landline, my office number, my boss's mobile and direct dial, my secretary's direct dial and a client who phones me a lot.

I know my parents' landline, my parents' mobile numbers, my brother's mobile number, my first mobile number (almost the same as my brother's because we got them when we were teens and he's never changed his), both sets of grandparents' old landlines (all dead now) and a handful of old school friends' old landlines.

Couldn't tell you my husband's mobile number if my life depended on it.

I remember a PA took it upon herself to collect a list of everybody's home numbers.

 

nobody knew them. but they could all remember the home number from when they'd been growing up with

Can also vividly remember the old Cricket Score phone lines, to get the latest Test Match score from the office (transistor radios not allowed...).

Let out a bellow  of joy when heard we had bowled out Aussie to win the 5th Test in 1985.

I have enough trouble remembering my four digit pin codes for various cards. Probably three or four phone numbers, but generally there's no real need to remember them. Scroll down directory and hit dial.