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In case of rotary phones it was much easier to put zero at the end. The old phones used pulses to dial numbers - one pulse meant one, two pulses - two, and so o
by kolinko 13y ago
In case of rotary phones it was much easier to put zero at the end. The old phones used pulses to dial numbers - one pulse meant one, two pulses - two, and so on. Ten pulses meant zero. If they wanted to put zero at the beginning, the dialing mechanism would need to be much more complex.
- nemetroid 13y agoIn Sweden, one pulse was (is) used for zero, two pulses for one and so forth. Therefore, old rotary phones havet zero next to one [1]. However, when buttons were introduced de ended up with the same layout as the US. 1:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Dialog.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Dialog.jp...