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It was about 5 years ago when I realized that 8675309 is hitting all of the numbers on the keypad diagonally in stripes from the upper left to the lower right, skipping 1 for some reason. Probably so he could rhyme 'mine' with 'nine'
When the song came out, almost all phones would have been rotary dial, so this is probably just coincidental.
On the one hand I'm enjoying wondering what the song would be paced like if instead of touch tone speed each number was separated by how long it would take to return to 0.
8 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 6 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit 7 dit-dit-dit-dit-dit....
ON the other hand, touch tones were invented in the 60's, so it's possible that they had access to the tech to touch dial at that time.