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Must have been tough thinking of an easy to remember phone number, and this ain’t it.


It made more sense at the time. 411 is an actual directory service (similar to dialing 0 for the operator). [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)


N11 codes are a particular curiosity of the electromechanical switching systems used to set up circuits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N11_code


What's the haps? What's the skinney? What's the 411?

3 questions that Gen-Zers probably have never heard asked and will never ask themselves


Sweet little duckling. Before the Internet you had to call a human on a phone to find phone numbers. 411 was a widely known number, similar to how widely known 911 is today.




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