• edric@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.

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          4 months ago

          Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…

          Just like it was for the button phones. It’s the same as typing

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            4 months ago

            But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
            The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.