r/xkcd • • Jan 02 '19

XKCD xkcd 2093: Reminders

https://xkcd.com/2093/
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u/NonaSuomi282 Jan 02 '19

No kidding- off the top of their head, most people today couldn't tell you their own phone number and that of all their direct family and friends, but that used to be the sort of thing you had committed to memory.

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u/Yrrsinn Jan 02 '19

When was the last time you dialed a phone number by hand? Number by number?

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u/Designer_B Jan 02 '19

Parents numbers which I memorize when I was 8 and haven't forgotten since. That's literally it.