I hate that it uses spaces instead of 0
But you could also wait a little and it would space out the next word
Takes too long. Who has that second or two? I’ve typed the next two words in that time.
I hope you had great success in life with all that time saved
It’s obviously ridiculous, but I was actually that impatient. I hope I learned some over the years. At least I now write with full-length words and not with abbreviations anymore.
Nt tht I 4got how tht wrks. I’m sure many here still rmbr how tht went. No time 2 spell out wrds. It bcame a secret lng of its own, like, 4 realz.
Keep it phat!
I mean, yes, I’m joking, but in reality with how fast you could type out messages in T9, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that you actually saved several days over the years, especially if you texted as much as I did, then you certainly saved some time.
It reached a stage where I can type messages without looking at the phone ne at all. Tactile keys has it’s advantages too.
Yeah, silently texting during class with one hand. Those were good days. When I got a smart phone without keys I was pretty annoyed texting.
I’m a little surprised that tiny Bluetooth keypads aren’t more of a thing. I guess people have just adapted to the touchscreen completely.
I could still read this from the numbers alone. I’m close to death aren’t I?
The morse code of our age.
Although morse code is way faster than t9
Saved you a minute of staring at the keypad: It spells out “you are old”
I thought it was a a song.
that’s 9988 999 888 999, 9988 999 88 987
You mean 0118, 999, 881, 999, 119, 725…3, right?
I’m not old. I just know how to read numpad.
Thanks. This comment put my brain in the right mode to realize what the post was saying.
I had initially thought it was one of those things where you play a song with the DTMF tones that the keypad would make… Silly me.
>:(
“You are old”
youareold
I am 18 and have owned 2 such phones. Where I grew up, it was kind of a luxury to own a smartphone in the early 2010s, so I’ve never really thought of these as some kind of ancient technology.
I’m 30 and remember my parents having these and my first two phones were Motorola razors. It was weird for most kids to have a phone until they could drive. Funny how quick it went from kids don’t need phones, to well I guess they should if they’re driving, to probably should be able to reach them anywhere but they don’t need the smart one lol
Where are you from?
A relatively small city in Bulgaria. The situation might have been different in larger cities.
The spaces should be 0
What blows my mind is the (muscle) memory involved in this. I’m using touchscreen based phones for ~10-15 years and my last phones had a QWERTY keyboard (Hardware buttons!).
can still write texts like I never stopped using these phones. Using T9 I may be even faster than on my smartphone today. I really miss those tactile buttons…
We have some Cisco 8xxx wireless phones at work. Setting them up from factory is great, cause you gotta input the ssid and whatnot using the keypad. Muscle memory is right lol
I get it. I’m angry, but I get it.
I can happily say that I never did this. Not because I’m not old but because I was poor as fuck. My first mobile phone with any sort of text based plan was a company provided BlackBerry.
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For my T9 homies
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