Something I’d noticed about phone numbers these past years is the arrival of #00 exchanges, if we can even call them exchanges anymore. I see phone numbers that look like 212-800-####. If all the last digits are zeroes that makes it “212 eight million”, a modern version of the earliest days when having the phone number of “1” was a badge of honor.
It’s a good thing those old numbers didn’t get grandfathered in somehow. Imagine how many wrong numbers the poor owner of “1” would get.
Not sure I’d be on board with a millioned-up phone number, meaning one with all zeroes after the first digit. It would take too long to dial on a rotary dialer. Not sure what, if anything, I’d go after in the #00 exchange game. when area codes go #00 i could go for a phone number of one billion: 100-000-000-0000. We’d have to stop formatting with hyphens and use commas instead because why the hell not.
The future of phone numbers is “Call me at one billion three hundred fifty-five million ….” whatever. with decimal points we could even have extensions!
