questions i don't have the answers to...
when did it change so that people stopped writing & typing phone numbers with dashes (i.e., 514-555-1212) and started writing them with periods (514.555.1212)? the last two weeks i've had at least four emails where numbers are written this way...
not that there's anything wrong with it (i do it, too). but is it a design thing, some trickling down of design conventions to the "common" person?
down with dashes!
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there's something unbelievably cool about people in those old movies picking up the huge clunky receivers and saying "operator, give me seymour 1240!" that was great and what an easy way to remember numbers. i suppose the letters were the shortened version of this practice.
because i don't use the phone much, i can NEVER remember phone numbers and have to keep my phone book with me at all times...though i do remember before that i could remember lots of numbers in my head. conversely, i can often remember people's email addresses...