American Phone Numbers: A system frozen in time:
This post is about me: Playing around with Phone Numbers for fun
I stumbled across this nerdy list of all the old telephone numbering system the USA uses called the North American Numbering Plan
North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia
Here's my look at the weird stuff that is still left over from the good old Ma bell telephone days...
1) *272
Results in a really quick disconnection, im curious what its purpose was
Apparitly it was to allow for gov calls to go though when the phones are congested..hmm. Meh.
sadly all the other ones dont work eather...
Source: Vertical service code - Wikipedia
2) Fictional phone numbers...
- 555 XXXX are fake
- 555-1212
- 555-1313
- 555-0100
through 555-0199 are reserved for fictional use
Some famous non fake phone numbers
I knew about 411, 911 (a classic), 811 (kinda)
new ones for me were:
- 211 Local info or social services
- 611 Telephone line repair service (archaic)
- 711 Help for people with disabilities
- 311 gov or non-emergency police
3) weird way to use 411 1-(aria code)-555-1212
Example: +1-495-555-1212
results: goes to 411, so also meh..
4) Trinidad and Tobago's phone code is TNT how cool!
5) Cool old shit...
TUCoPS :: Phreaking Caller ID :: anac.txt
by oran collins
github.com/wisehackermonkey
oranbusiness (ascii character 64 decimal) gmail (ascii character 46 decimal) com
202104196) 710-627-4387 (710-NCS-GETS).
7) got to love government mandated websites which are legally required to exist, and not a sole has visited them in years
does have a cool map though
