Community Chat

[Pearlee]

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@Bridgegal wrote:

Just to summarize:

Area codes began in NJ in 1951, then rolled out over the rest of the country.

ZIP codes in 1963.

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Yes, well, someone saw a need to hijack the thread and cause some confusion.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

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@fthunt wrote:

Yaw - zips are recent.  If you want to go back in time.........how many

remember party lines on telephone?

You shared a line with neighbors - ours was a 2 party - ------

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@fthunt   How about phone numbers with prefixes.... Mine growing up was GL4...  

We of a certain age remember when telephone numbers used to start with names instead of digits. The first two letters of the name were usually capitalized, and they corresponded to the first two digits of the phone number on a dial. This system started in the 1930s and lasted well into the '60s.

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@SeaMaiden 

Oh yes .... my parents' phone number was Emerson 6910 .... or EM-6910.     

For the longest time my sister used our first full phone number for some of her account passwords. You just can't forget that!  

[beckyb1012]

I do not remember my exact age but I was in elementary school.  We had only 1 zip code and did not have to use it when we were taught how to address an envelope.  (I think we did not have to use it if the mail was staying in our town but we needed one to use the zip if out of town mail.) Later when it was required we were taught the additional information.  Now we have 9 zip codes in my city.