- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 12•7 months ago
Weird how they split up Europe into a patchwork.
I’m guessing it’s because France refused to share a prefix code with Britain.
- allywilson ( @allywilson@sopuli.xyz ) 5•7 months ago
It’s not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is…fine…but I’ve not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.
- KevonLooney ( @KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 6•7 months ago
NA has +1 because the US invented the telephone. Canada is America’s hat.
- allywilson ( @allywilson@sopuli.xyz ) 2•7 months ago
Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, who moved to Canada and then moved to the US.
- fᵣₑfᵢ ( @frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•7 months ago
The US is literally #1
Edit: plus Canada, I didn’t know we were country calling code buddies 🫶
- Swarfega ( @Swarfega@lemm.ee ) English16•7 months ago
They needed to make it simple for Americans
- fᵣₑfᵢ ( @frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•7 months ago
Awww :(
I was just pointing it out because we’re never #1 in anything that isn’t horrible these days
- Swarfega ( @Swarfega@lemm.ee ) English5•7 months ago
Don’t worry. I was only joking.
America is #1 at lots of things, like… erm… yeah. Lots of things.
- flamingo_pinyata ( @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ) 3•7 months ago
The only other pair sharing the same number are Russia and Kazakhstan with 7
- _MusicJunkie ( @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org ) 4•7 months ago
All of the USSR was +7 IIRC. Most changed it after independence, notice how the Baltics, Belarus and whatnot have previously unassigned three-character numbers instead of two like most of Europe (except microstates). They only got their numbers in the 90s, and no shorter ones were available. +37 just became available since east Germany didn’t exist anymore.
Same with the former Yugoslavian countries, all of YU used +38, when they split up they had to split up +38 too.
- gandalf_der_12te ( @gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de ) English6•7 months ago
now do IP addresses
- deliriousn0mad ( @deliriousn0mad@feddit.it ) 2•7 months ago
I love how the division in Europe vaguely looks like the Protestant Reformation led to different prefix numbers (I know I know, Poland & co don’t match)
- Ashy ( @cali_ash@lemmy.wtf ) 1•7 months ago
What are those, calling codes for ants?
If you have a better version, feel free to provide it, I would update the link
Thanks, updated
- Deebster ( @Deebster@programming.dev ) English2•7 months ago
You might want to know about this handy site: https://imgops.com/
The various reverse lookup services all seem to be strongest in different areas, but generally I start with tineye and Yandex and only try the others if I don’t find what I need.