Ancient here, also. Remember when if a tube in your TV blew out & you'd go to the store with the bulb & match it up, come back home & change it?? Party line followed by telling the operator who you wanted to talk to & then they would connect you, followed by 4 digit phone numbers, & then they added letters before the 4 digits. the letters turned into the 1st three numbers we used last & now we have to do the area code 1st.