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I love how it isn’t until the third paragraph that the post mentions what country 555-XXXX numbers are relevant to. This is the World Wide Web folks, not the U
by s1mon 4y ago
I love how it isn’t until the third paragraph that the post mentions what country 555-XXXX numbers are relevant to.
This is the World Wide Web folks, not the USA web. The whole blog and offering seems US centric, to the point where I’m assuming it might not work very well at all for people outside of the North American Numbering plan area. We wouldn’t know because they seem to assume that the only people who are going to see this site live in the US, and phone numbers all need to have 9 digits.
- linsomniac 4y agoIt talks about NANPA, so wouldn't it be more accurate to say "what continent" rather than "what country"? The NA stands for North American.
- s1mon 4y agoOk, a couple of down votes on this. I’m curious why. I was born and have lived almost all of my life in the US. I get tired of provincial web sites assuming that any random person who stumbles upon it will only be from the US, or even more insane, just from the local area. ( e.g. a restaurant site which just has a street address, or a newspaper site which assumes I know which Springfield it’s about)
- archi42 4y agoThe 555 is a common trope in US movies and TV shows[0]. I always thought those are non-assignable in the US (obviously I was wrong), but it's fair to assume this trope to be well known. If you didn't know that, you're one of today's lucky 10000 :) [0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveFiveFive https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveFiveFive [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- bazoom42 4y agoThe Ghostbusters still didn’t clue you in?