why do people still do the (xxx) xxx-xxxx phone number format anyway

it's not like the area code has any special meaning anymore

@trwnh @Felthry this and also if i'm getting a phone number from someone local i know the area code will be either 905 or 289 so having it separated out helps me parse those three digits as the one bit of information that it effectively is

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@monorail @trwnh no one has landlines anymore though, in our experience

and your cell number is just "whatever area code you lived in years ago when you first got a cell phone"

...i guess outside of college towns that might be more reliably "here" though

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