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Did anyone use the Red Talking Phonebook in the 1990s? It had a phone number you could dial and then you could enter codes to get different information such as
by karmelapple 3y ago
Did anyone use the Red Talking Phonebook in the 1990s?
It had a phone number you could dial and then you could enter codes to get different information such as movie times, jokes, the time of day, and so on.
I liked trying random codes in it to see if I could find hidden services... and eventually I did. I don't recall the exact code, but I think it was like 9987. It turned out to be basically this - an anonymous public voicemail box where you could listen to recordings other people made, and you could make your own.
A few other people stumbled upon it, too, and there was a range of messages on there: some funny, some very silly, some fairly scary or weird.
I've never come across anyone else who had stumbled upon this though... surely someone here has?
- b112 3y agoClosest thing to this, was a number a friend of mine was told about. We called it, and you could hear 100s of people talking, some sort of crossed analog line issue. This was in the 80s in a very rural area. Anyhow I remember everyone having fun, yelling at everyone else to be heard, but also, a few people really mad. It seemed like some people wanted to make a phone call, everyone else was just having fun. A few days later it vanished, probably to the happiness of those lines directly affected.