• @somtwo
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      229 months ago

      You could seriously text without looking at your phone screen. It was awesome!

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Tbh I could do that on a plain numeric keypad. I remember blindly texting under my desk in school. I wouldn’t be able to do it nowadays though.

    • @feedum_sneedson
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      59 months ago

      I am evidently young enough that I tried to figure it out using T9 in my head, and just got confused. So a partial win.

    • @GreenSkree
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      29 months ago

      Eh. I never used it. I could type without looking without T9. T9 was faster, but then I had to pay attention to the predictions.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        The first versions of t9 were entirely predictable and hardcoded so the words were always in the same order when pressing star. Later versions had some optimisations that mad it change, but it settled quite quickly to your writing style. I’m always surprised how few countries adopted t9… I’d Denmark literally everyone used t9. Even my mom. And you were weird if not using it. It wa also stupid fast to type on.