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Originally posted by greytone
Did you all know that when area codes were first assigned, the lower the number, the greater the population within the covered area. Of course, population rankings changed over time and now this has absolutely no meaning because of all the overlapping codes.
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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
yes, just like they either had a 1 or a 0 in the middle of them.. now it's meaningless.
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The reason why was... remember the old "rotary phones"? Lower numbers took the shortest time to dial. So the most frequently used area codes (212-NY, 213-LA, 312-CHI, and so forth) took less time to dial.
-Mikey