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

@Felthry

...do I still do that? I feel like I don't still do that.

If I did still do that, it'd be out of internalized "everything must be formatted correctly"-ness.

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@packbat I don't know if you still do that, this was about a pizza delivery site

@Felthry oh, yeah, that's pretty common on, like, restaurant menus

I think that industry is less concerned with the latest trends in non-food-related technology on average

@Felthry half the menus in my kitchen for local restaurants have parentheses

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