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.
I did
Holy shit I never realised this! I was just patiently waiting like a dumb mfr so I can type the next letter all the way up until I got a touchscreen phone lmao
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 still am.
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?
There once was a time I had that proficiency, I can’t do it anymore though
t9 was a gamechanger
You could seriously text without looking at your phone screen. It was awesome!
Tbh I could do that on a plain numeric keypad. I remember blindly texting under my desk in school. I wouldn’t be able to do it nowadays though.
I am evidently young enough that I tried to figure it out using T9 in my head, and just got confused. So a partial win.
Eh. I never used it. I could type without looking without T9. T9 was faster, but then I had to pay attention to the predictions.
The first versions of t9 were entirely predictable and hardcoded so the words were always in the same order when pressing star. Later versions had some optimisations that mad it change, but it settled quite quickly to your writing style. I’m always surprised how few countries adopted t9… I’d Denmark literally everyone used t9. Even my mom. And you were weird if not using it. It wa also stupid fast to type on.
I would love t9 on iOS. It’s so much faster than qwerty with two fingers
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?
“You are old”
youareold
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 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.
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Not quite, with age comes experience. Learning from that experience is wisdom.
Not quite. Actually putting into practice what has been learned is true wisdom.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/wisdom-vs-knowledge/
OK, enough wisecracking. 😇
The point is: age doesn’t make wise automatically
When do You learn that nobody actually listens to the uhm ackchually guy?
The spaces should be 0
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.
I can type an entire sentence without looking at my phone with swipe to text ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Plot twist: it’s only one sentence.
Yeah, but slant it tends to name lots of misjudged? Whenever I type out with selling, or trends to auricular to the wing words.
Of chase, you might simply be better at it than me.
(Yeah, but doesn’t it tend to make lots of mistakes? Whenever I type out with swiping, it tends to autocorrect to the wrong words.
Of course, you might simply be better at it then me. )
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I could never get the hang of that, that’s a whole other kind of skill level I was lacking.
Just need autocorrect and it’s not that hard on the default keyboard
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.
I get it. I’m angry, but I get it.
