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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This was around sporadically in the US Great Plains until maybe the 1990s. And calling outside your city but within the same area code was an eight-digit call:

1 + seven-digit local phone number

I still can’t quite believe it, especially when my city added a 6th area code a few years back.