Digital discord
SALISBURY
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It’s a good thing we’ve got a whole year to get used to the idea of 10-digit
telephone dialing. While the official reason may be that the long
“practice-dialing” period will help reduce frustrations and problems when the
new area code takes effect, truth is, it’ll give us a whole year to vent our
crotchety complaints about having to dial three whole extra numbers just to make local
calls. Geez, for that kind of digital heavy lifting, you should get connected to another
state, or at least another city. Let’s face it: Most of us are comfortable with the
seven-digit dialing system, just as decades ago we were happy with the four-digit system,
and before that, people liked turning a crank and having a real, live operator connect
calls. But there’s no stopping change — or population growth — in the
fiber-optic age. We just have to deal — and dial — with it. |
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