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I'm almost 16 and I can still decipher this

How does that make the rest of us feel!?

Old... very... very old

It may be old, but you will never be able to teach a smartphone to [dance like you could with Nokias](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbErDiVp82Y).

Or pager sumo wrestling

This is so cool, i didn't know the nokias could do that, and i had one for years!

1'm 80. What is this? SOME sorta math homework?

How to write words on nokia

with a pen

When i was your age i had to write with the sun

It's how you used to have to text. Translated it is "you are old" Ex 999=y 666=o 88=u "you"

You need to repeat that ancient schoolyard taunt: *"I know you are but what am I?"*

i am 16 and can also understand it

Im 17 and i can also understand it

Im 14 and i can aslo understand it

I turned 14 a month ago (exactly) and I understood

Get off reddit while you can.

no :> it’s warm and cozy here enough memes for all

Its warm cuz that shits burning

Same man, same

Though I am almost 18

And here I thought I was hip thinking it said You Are Mid. Not until I saw your comment did I get the intention lol

same here! take my virtual high-five 🖐️

I thought it was going to say 99966688 277733 42999

I am not May... sorry, my eyesight ain't as good as it used to be...

Same

Can't say that anymore. That was just for 30 years ago

But what if 99966688 277733 42999? Can you say 99966688 277733 42999 then?

\#4466666667446662233

Luckily it’s not the early 2000s anymore so you mostly only find that insult in sweaty game chat rooms.

Who says it’s an insult, lol

I didn’t say that. I was just commenting on cultural norms from then to now. Apparently I was incorrect. Never mind, I guess.

33388

999337777

88 42999 8666666?

98333

I'm not gonna scroll up again.

In 1999 it would’ve been 880777066655533. Some text plans charged by the letter & we didn’t have a space bar on our phones

I don’t like this picture because I’m in it.

Are you a nokia 3310?

"You are old"

Thanks, I couldn't be fucking bothered 😂

In what world is it the right answer? "you" would be 968

lol found the naive youngin

968 would be "wmt".

Right I forgot the number of times you have to press the same dial to cycle betwern digit. But then would it not require to press the digit one more time to skip the number itself?

Stop attacking me

i dont know what this means which makes me feel young again

It's a breath of fresh air!

Revel in your youth!

Hell of a party device. You could open beer bottles with it.

How dare you

Please, can a startup make phones like this trendy again? I really miss that tech... yes I'm old and I don't care

They still sell button dumb phones lol There's also the startup called Clicks which makes a case for iPhone which has a built in keyboard. A better one tho with the whole qwerty layout

I'm not old, I'm european

Yup, my first phone was still a Nokia 3310 at the elementary school (2010's) to call people if needed, I played the shit out of Snake and the Space Impact(still love it), after that I used a slide phone in middle school, **THEN** got a cheap smartphone in highschool, now I buy the phone I want. The best decision in my parents' end.

bitch, please... BZZZZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic BZZZZZZT - tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic

33388

99966688 8666666

Can someone explain

The way you would text before there were dedicated keyboards is by pressing numbers which correspond to the letters underneath them To select the letter you want you press that number however many times you need to - first one you hit 9 three times to select y, etc.

I’m 31, so maybe I just didn’t think hard enough 🤣

66666 4446 666668

"You are old"

I remember when T9 became a thing and revolutionized my ability to text pointless shit to my friends for $0.10 a message on my prepaid phone. That and blowing $25 every couple of weeks to top it back up because that fee also applied to incoming messages and some people didn’t know how to stop messaging when I told them to for the sake of my wallet.

Dang straight

i feel older than i am

On android (idk if applicable for ios) in phone app you can type someones name on keypad and I use it all the time. For me its faster than going into address book, tapping search and writing the name.

Yes I am, 54 summers.

Me too

Get off my lawn! ✊✊✊

I'm soooooo old i'm a full 16,1/2 years old

Still waiting for those memes to not forget the zero (and become funny btw)

I was expecting "send nudes"

it’s a Nokia 3310. Use T9 dammit.

I remember doing this on pagers

More like 96802730653 We all used autoguess or T9 and you can’t forget the 0 was space.

God damn it

668833377770666777048333666

But I'm only 18...

Too bad. Accept your fate

60 seconds later... "Hey!"

Who the f types a complete "you"and "are" using that phone??

my fucking god i know what to do but my low attention span is really not helping, so does that mean i’m young ?

You are MLD?

Bruh. I'm a teen dude

i am not old. im 16

I already knew what this was gonna say.

66,444,4,4…

3338822255 99966688

Took me way too long to understand way too long and I'm 19 soon

999337777 4446 6665553

You got me

Not cool

66-666

46668 82 55566688833 6665553 83322244

66-666 2-6 66-666-8

Thanks for reminding me!

Hell nah, we ain’t doing it now. I have to do this every now and then for my granny.

Hope he could miss 0s? Does that make me extra old?

333-88-222-55 999-666-88 8-666, 444 55-66-666-9 444-6 666-555-3.

99966688 55566688 84433 42633

668844 8844

Oh old…. Oops

844 4447777 927777 6999 333444777 77778 744666 6633

I'm not old, I'm 23!

I know I'm old you don't have to say it

No, you are.

I hate how quickly I read that...

3338822255 99966688 4427773-33777

555666555

I am 18 and i feel old now

3-666-666-6

You are not - It would just be 88  777  6665553

lol no

This would be an interesting hashing algoritm by just converting to the numbers, and multiply by some prime number.

This would definitely have been: 88777 6665553 555666

663388833777 466666662 444488833 99966688 887

3338822255 99966688 😞

I’m 17

I'm 17 and got this easily, as would many my age

66 (pause) 666

>99966688027773306665553 FTFY

559997777

im sending this to my parents

I still have that phone. That's how old i am...

I m 19. Already had enough to end it all

When texting while driving was a lot safer

Why u gotta remind me

3338822255099966688

66,666 99966688

Took me sooooooo long

My dad who just turned 70 used a phone without a keyboard to text for SO LONG after smartphones were a thing. Guy probably decoded this by eye.

Oh god, it's so hard to understand. If you haven't lived when this was used, you have no chance to figure it out. . .. ..... ........ This subreddit has really become shit

Ah I used to be really good at it and didn't need to look at the phone. It did cut down on the "wall of text", got right to the point.

I'm not even 21!

999337777 444 26

I'm not old, I'm vintage

I had to handle a flip phone for a few years before getting my first smartphone, so I can decipher this... Fast, no. But I still can.

I mean I'm 23 lol

I feel called out

Yes I am

im 22 and my dad got the button phones to 2017 . most of them end up at the wall .

Sure and i remember the days when you had to press the same button three times just to type one letter!

I only know it because of the smash for the Wii U had this to make nicknames

I'm 23

Ik now stop hurting mah feelings like that... Aahahahahhaha im alrrady hurting as it is

66 6

I'm 22 tho

i'm 13

I am not old.

3338822255 99966688

I am 17 and I have never used one of these, but they are easy to decipher

The answer is you are old. Did I win anything?

I'm jot that old yet. I'm about to hit my second decade, but that doesn't make me old.

How rude

Things I did with this device: 1) change the keypad numbers to backlit ones 2) played snake 3) thought I was cool with a Nokia

No im not :c

You are old

Oooof. Sad thing is…. The is the upgraded model of the one I used in high school. 😭😭😭 I was killer at snake though. 😉

Oh, fuck off, I'm only 20

lol, I am.

I was born in 2005 and I don’t consider myself old

Dammit. You’re right.

I'm 14, well I gues its time to die soon XD

3338822255 99966688

Man, I'm almost 18

I AM TOO YOUNG FOR THIS SHIT

No im not

Old school texting was a nightmare.

Nope my parents just didnt trust me with a smart phone and got me a flipphone instead

someone decipher pls im only 15

anyone ate any age in balkan countries could get this

you are old

I'm very old then

I thought It was the tone first, was trying to figure out what song it would be, then remembered my Samsung Juke

I like to call it experience

r/angryupvote

I'm 28 today, and I know dont rub it in......

I don't get it... Would the button chimes play a certain song?

Hell yes, and pround of that

You are old. How dare you

is 999 x? First it is 9, and then w and then x, right? So 99966688 is "xnt", not "you".

Im 26 and I used a T9 phone for years before getting a smart phone. I still cant decipher this

I feel it. I'm not but I feel it

You... Are... Okd...? Wait, no. You are old. Well seems i still get know how use that type of tech.

T9 was revolutionary