I hate that it uses spaces instead of 0
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
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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.
I did
I could still read this from the numbers alone. I’m close to death aren’t I?
There once was a time I had that proficiency, I can't do it anymore though
t9 was a gamechanger
I would love t9 on iOS. It's so much faster than qwerty with two fingers
>:(
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.
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.
No I am not.
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66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 4 444 888 33 0 999 666 88 0 88 7 0 66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 555 33 8 0 999 666 88 0 3 666 9 66
I had a hunch that was confirmed with the first three letters.
3338822255099966688
Yeah, but the whole five of us in the school could text each other without needing to take it out of our pockets so the teachers wouldn't take it away. Kids these days won't have those awesomely useless skills.
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
3338822255099966688 😁
And the battery lasted forever
66 666 88
I'm still not as fast with swipe as I was with t9... It was great
0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
Type that into the default android dialler and it has a little easter egg.
I'm so old I knew what the message said the moment I looked at it
I got really good at T9 texting. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to type as fast as I was able to do that.
Likely because you could, in most normal conversational speaking cases. With T9 you didn’t have to press the number multiple times unless it wasn’t picking up the word you needed but at a high rate of correct predictability, only pressing 10 different buttons would be a lot faster than typing on the whole keyboard. The software being fast enough to keep up is a little less likely compared to modern smartphones but hey, at least you could send a confidently correct text with your phone in your pocket.
7777 33 66 3 0 66 88 3 33 7777
Yeah well your mum's old but she still sucks like a nanny goat!
:-(