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Before messengers, people used "phones" to communicate. The _only_ way to use these phone things were by exchanging that very same phone number that you want to
by bryan_w 5y ago
Before messengers, people used "phones" to communicate. The _only_ way to use these phone things were by exchanging that very same phone number that you want to keep private.
- jjav 5y agoBefore the Internet (at least, Internet available to people outside a few institutions), caller-id was either not available at all or an extra-cost service you had to pay for. So the normal case for a ringing phone was that you had no idea who was calling or any way to get the number. Those capabilities came later. You'd look up someones phone number in the white pages and anonymously called them. Which of course was a source of much entertainment for us kids of the 70s and 80s. Now, of course, the phone company knew both numbers, so there wasn't any privacy in that sense.