How You Got Your Phone Number | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...

“I sold weed out of phone booth once, we’re so much alike!” Chuck you are the most relatable man on the planet sometimes! 😂

Neil - I once interned at Bell Labs Chuck- I once sold weed in a phone booth 😂😂😂 Gotta say I got more in common with Chuck on this one 😅😅

What’s also cool is that the telephone companies saved the 555 leading digits combination for use in movies and other works of fiction. So whenever you see a phone number in a movie it’s always a non-working 555 telephone number

I'm old enough (61) to remember when as a kid living in Alabama in the early 1970's, I only had to dial the last 4 numbers of a phone number to connect locally.

It's amazing how everyone can remember dozens of phone numbers by rote memory before mobile phones were invented. Nowadays, we can't remember anyone's number other than our own.

Check the area code for where you live against the population! If you live in a high-population area, is your area code really easy to dial?

In my country (Portugal) it was the same. 01 was Lisbon, 02 was Porto. Then other reasons would have 3 numeral area code, like 011. Because numbers in those two big cities were 7 numerals long, while the other regions were 6. Eventually in the late 90s everything was normalized, the zeroes converted to 2, and all phone numbers now are 9 numerals

When I was 5 years old, you could use the rotary phone and dial your own number. Soon as the last number finished clicking off you hung up and your phone would ring. Used to drive my grandma nuts until she caught me. I didn't know how to plug the phone back in at that age. lol

9:15 These guys laugh themselves to tears and then THE REST OF US too

Pretty sure Chuck's phone booth was in area code 420