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Phone numbers

ronbyrne2005 · 2009-03-02 13:11:23

Does anyone know what is the oldest operational landline phone number/phone line in Ireland?

02-03-2009 1:11pm

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Does anyone know what is the oldest operational landline phone number/phone line in Ireland?

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#2 02-03-2009 1:12pm

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ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Does anyone know what is the oldest operational landline phone number/phone line in Ireland?

01-000001

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#3 02-03-2009 1:17pm

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ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Does anyone know what is the oldest operational landline phone number/phone line in Ireland?

Prank calling old ladies isn't nice.

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#4 02-03-2009 1:18pm

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999?

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#5 02-03-2009 1:20pm

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#6 02-03-2009 1:24pm

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Ask 11850 ?

I'd say it's a 19xx number since they are normally service level numbers.

Edit:

I think 10 is the answer:
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg03143R.pdf

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#7 02-03-2009 1:33pm

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Isn't it the red one in Leinster House connected to the Bat-cave?

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#8 02-03-2009 1:36pm

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The phone number between Fianna Fail HQ and their bank in the Camens???

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#9 02-03-2009 1:43pm

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#10 02-03-2009 1:47pm

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ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Does anyone know what is the oldest operational landline phone number/phone line in Ireland?

Is "Yore Ma's phone number" appropriate in this situation mods?

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#11 02-03-2009 1:47pm

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Wiki is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number

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#12 02-03-2009 1:54pm

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Id imagine its just "0", as prior to automatic switches you had to dial the operator to make a call.

The story of how the automatic switch was invented is quite interesting and pointless. The wife of an undertaker worked switch in the US back in the days, any calls made looking for an undertaker were diverted to her husband. The competition got wind of this and were involved in inventing an automated switch. Moral of the story? Its a dead end job.

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#13 02-03-2009 5:57pm

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Think it was zero for non-local numbers only... they didn't put dials on them until auto switches were invested. Some had a handle to signal the exchange you wanted to ring a call.

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#14 02-03-2009 6:41pm

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back in the good old days phone numbers were only 3 digits long. then they made em all longer so there probably isnt 1 oldest landline number.

the service numbers have all been re-routed to new modern Web 2.0 fibre optic exchange shizzle so not really landline anyway

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#15 02-03-2009 6:48pm

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my brother bought this ancient tractor last year

the sticker said

all service and parts, call 24

or something like that, obviously a $hit load of phones back in that day

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#16 02-03-2009 6:54pm

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Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Is "Yore Ma's phone number" appropriate in this situation mods?

its never appropriate, or funny.

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#17 02-03-2009 7:29pm

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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone, nobody had invented telephone numbers. Bell sat by his new phone for weeks waiting for it to ring, until somebody invented the SECOND telephone...

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#18 02-03-2009 7:47pm

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The old way to contact someone was to ring the operator and ask for*village name* followed by*number* eg, "maynooth 22 please".
Post offices were always 01 and garda stations were always 02. Check your local post office or copshops no. and they're probably still ending in them digits.
Seeing as the GPO was probably the first exchange and being the post office too I'd imagine their number is probably the oldest one in existence

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#19 02-03-2009 7:55pm

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HydeRoad wrote: »

Bell sat by his new phone for weeks waiting for it to ring

So Bell was a sad, single woman on a Thursday night?

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#20 02-03-2009 8:34pm

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Oh, sorry, the oldest one in Ireland? It was a house in Dawson Street - if you go down to the National Library you can consult the (very delicate) phone books of the National Telephone Company of the 1900s.

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#21 02-03-2009 9:01pm

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luckat wrote: »

Oh, sorry, the oldest one in Ireland? It was a house in Dawson Street - if you go down to the National Library you can consult the (very delicate) phone books of the National Telephone Company of the 1900s.

Must be a very small book.:D

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#22 02-03-2009 9:08pm

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HydeRoad wrote: »

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone, nobody had invented telephone numbers. Bell sat by his new phone for weeks waiting for it to ring, until somebody invented the SECOND telephone...

Alexander Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone, he stole the idea...

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#23 02-03-2009 9:12pm

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Ever wonder why so many Garda Station's phone numbers begin with 666?
Think about it, you know it makes sense...

Store Street
Tel 01-666 8000 Bridewell
Tel 01-666 8200 Pearse Street
Tel 01-666 9000 O`Connell Street
Tel 01-666 8067 Kevin Street
Tel 01-666 9400
etc, etc...

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#24 03-03-2009 5:45am

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x in the city wrote: »

my brother bought this ancient tractor last year

the sticker said

all service and parts, call 24

or something like that, obviously a $hit load of phones back in that day

So do you think the first phone sex operator in Ireland was 69 ?

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#25 03-03-2009 5:50am

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galwayrush wrote: »

Must be a very small book.:D

I know you're joking - but yes, the phone directories for 1910 onwards have only a couple of hundred numbers in them; they're pamphlets. Virtually all of the entities with phones are companies or the British aristocracy that infested the place at the time.

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