When’s the last time you called 10-10-321?!

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RitchieViolence@reddit

The one and only time I used that number was to call a gf to let her know that I didn’t want to be with her anymore.

I called from Las Vegas.

grins

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Gnarly_Sarley@reddit

The website is still up, and has a copyright date of 2014

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Piranha_Vortex@reddit

Nailed it! Now we wait and look out for her van

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that1tech@reddit

Especially with my parents that would often run errands and come get us

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LacklusteHero@reddit

This was a deeply buried memory! The most impressive pull I've seen here in a while.

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Unplugthenplugin@reddit

I remember Carl Winslow and the other guy is vaguely familiar but I have no idea about the numbers.

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probablyatargaryen@reddit

This is my favorite thing about this sub. Digging things out of my brain like a grave robber

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Never. I remember the commercials though. My mom got a calling card that was attached to our home phone account and gave me one so I could make calls, including long distance, from a payphone if I needed to. I believe how it worked was to dial 0 before the number and then it would prompt for a code which was on the card.

The calls did show up on my mom’s phone bill so I couldn’t go nuts with it but it was nice to have in case I needed to make a call and didn’t have change for the phone.

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Zeveroth1@reddit

You musta been rich

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Klutzy_Word_6812@reddit

Yes, but do you remember when it was just 10-321? Also, I mostly used 1-800-CALL-ATT

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BloodyRightNostril@reddit

We are the same

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chadork@reddit

I use 1-800-COLLECT

The commercials hooked me. 🎶Save a buck or two or three🎶

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olystretch@reddit

My name was "Mom, pick me up at..."

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metalbrosolid@reddit

We would call our friend from a certain pay phone and say "Mrpickup"..he would show up 5 min later..lol

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gooch_norris_@reddit

Wehadababyitsaboy

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Beetso@reddit

Hello Bob!

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locomuerto@reddit

Dial down the center

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khakiwarrior@reddit

800

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DustyScharole@reddit

I was a 10-10-220 guy. Want to fight about it?

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VWBug5000@reddit

220, 221, whatever it takes

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OldJames47@reddit

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227 Gang, represent!

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BloodyRightNostril@reddit

There’s no place like home!

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JWarblerMadman@reddit

You staying around for Amen?

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BloodyRightNostril@reddit

The hell kinda question is that? Yes.

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Relative-Gas-1721@reddit

Beer?

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katelynnsmom24@reddit

It's 7 o' clock in the morning.

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RanHakubi@reddit

And?

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Buddha0426@reddit

I haven't slept in days

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BloodyRightNostril@reddit

Whoa, better cut back, Smokey!

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FreedomDirty5@reddit

Scotch?

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clutzycook@reddit

Not during working hours.

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BloodyRightNostril@reddit

How’d you like a lil trim on that mustache, Ron?

Pull-stars chainsaw

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texan01@reddit

Yes

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Stiffy4Freedom@reddit

Me too!

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WetMogwai@reddit

I worked as an intern in a corporate IT department when those commercials were still on. The network was on a 10.10.220.0/24 subnet because that was so easy to remember. I never called one of those numbers but that one was useful and important for me.

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ouijahead@reddit

My mom made me dial it . I was curious what happened to them and just looked it up. They died out from natural causes

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MakeYourTime_@reddit

This is a fucking deeeeeep cut

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lunalore79@reddit

Never used it but those damn commercials have been stuck in my head for decades 😩

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StonedWheatThicc@reddit

I was team 10-10-220 and I used it at least once a week to call my long-distance internet boyfriend. 😂

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

There were SO many of these damn 10-10- numbers for a while. Constant commercials. Were people calling collect that much??

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joni-bella@reddit

It wasn’t to call collect, it was to switch carriers for just that phone call for (ostensibly) a cheaper rate. In NYC in the mid 90s for example, calling New Jersey from Queens would be an expensive per minute rate (50 cents or something?), but if you dialed “10-NJB” first, the call carrier would be New Jersey Bell, and it was supposed to be something like “only 10 cents per minute”.

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Bulky_Pop_8104@reddit

Thank you! As soon as I saw this I remembered the commercials, but couldn’t remember what they were actually selling - I had to scroll a long way to find the answer

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Lilricky25@reddit

What my question is now, why is this still active? Looks like Verizon bought it back in 2014, and it still works...

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joni-bella@reddit

The landline phone system hasn’t changed much - digital switching instead of analog and less copper for call carriage but this “10-10” stuff happens at a higher layer. I’m not sure it was originally meant to be a consumer feature, but just a way to control carrier connection using tones. Back far enough, you could use tone generators to get free calls (phone phreaking - look up Steve Jobs’ first product in college, the “Blue Box”)

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Joeybeer81@reddit

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Dial down the center. 1-800-CALL-ATT

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HikingTom51@reddit

Does this still work?

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kgruesch@reddit

About the same time I last called 877-CASH-NOW...

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singleguy79@reddit

I don't ever recall calling the number.

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Jayrandomer@reddit

I call 10-10-1776-5-28-1830-242-3-316-68-22

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VWBug5000@reddit

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

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katet_of_19@reddit

https://i.redd.it/ny88v4txzexg1.gif

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the_warchief213@reddit

Fore! No. FIVE! erm FIRE!

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beeurd@reddit

Just send an email.

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PickledPepa@reddit

867-5309

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ActuallyAlexander@reddit

I’ve had this memorized since the day it aired.

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JFrankParnell64@reddit

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Huh?🙁

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thunderlips36@reddit

I used 10-10-220 because it was hocked by this guy at one point

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GrungeCheap56119@reddit

Yessssss. Back in college 20 years ago.

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Prossdog@reddit

And you knew they were legit because they got John Lithgow to do their commercials

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squadgeek@reddit

And Carlin, if memory serves.

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nudave@reddit

Not in time? Press *69

*66, the busy signal fix.

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limelight022@reddit

Totally forgot about this! What did it do again?? 😂

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Marachek@reddit

It was a called a dial around code in telecom. 101 was the code and 0321 or 0222 or 0 whatever was the PIC Primary InterExchange Carrier you would point your Long Distance call to, instead of your call going over the PIC code you had on your phone line for your LD calls.

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