@codl i wonder what the history behind that is
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@Felthry there's a big ol wikipedia article about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan
@codl NANP is an amusing acronym
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@codl today we learned: telephone numbers used to not be all numbers
huh
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@Felthry right? they even share it with a bunch of carribean islands, they each just get an area code