This started in the US in the early '90's. What happened is that they ran out of area codes. Prior to then, an area code was distinguishable from a local prefix because they always had either "1" or "0" as the middle digit. (e.g. 303 for Denver or 313 for Detroit.) As the demand for phone numbers when ballistic, AT&T found out they were running out of area code numbers. The easiest solution was to make area codes out of prefixes. So Detroit was split from 313 to 313/248, then 313/248/586 and 313/248/734. So if you lived inside an area code that didn't have 0 or 1 as the middle digit, you had to dial the full number in order for the phone switches to figure out if you were making a call inside the area or outside.
An interesting sidebar is that there's really never been a shortage of phone numbers. The real problem is an inefficient allocation of numbers. For many years, phone numbers were doled out in blocks of 10,000, even to small phone companies who would never have even a thousand customers. I think they finally changed that idiocy a few years back; otherwise we'd be dialing 12 or 13 digits by now.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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