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Oh, and it served as an equivalent of Facebook's "poke" among teenagers.
I remember doing this when I was a kid. We also had an understanding of the number of based on the number of rings, too: 1 ring and hang up was when my aunt got home and 2 rings was my cousin got home. They could call us long distance to let us know they got home OK.
Yeah this was big among my age group in Australia too, in the late 80s early 90s. Pay phones only charged if the other end picked up, so it was an easy way to tell dad to pick you up or that you’d be late.
Another trick was to place operator-assisted person-to-person calls with the names of different fictional people representing different messages.
For example, Harvey Jones could mean "Pick me up at the diner."
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Yeah this was big among my age group in Australia too, in the late 80s early 90s. Pay phones only charged if the other end picked up, so it was an easy way to tell dad to pick you up or that you’d be late.
This was pretty common in the United States once direct dialing was available. Another trick was to place operator-assisted person-to-person calls with the names of different fictional people representing different messages. For example, Harvey Jones could mean "Pick me up at the diner."
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I remember doing this when I was a kid. We also had an understanding of the number of based on the number of rings, too: 1 ring and hang up was when my aunt got home and 2 rings was my cousin got home. They could call us long distance to let us know they got home OK.
Yeah this was big among my age group in Australia too, in the late 80s early 90s. Pay phones only charged if the other end picked up, so it was an easy way to tell dad to pick you up or that you’d be late.