{"id":1021,"date":"2014-03-18T00:33:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:01:54","slug":"requiem-7773456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/requiem-7773456\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for 7773456"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/moviefone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/moviefone.jpg\" alt=\"moviefone\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/moviefone.jpg 380w, https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/moviefone-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I started working in the VoIP industry way back in 1999, I was living in Manhattan and used to call the local Moviefone DID (2127773456) on a regular basis to find the movie show times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it was so easy to remember, it became my &#8216;go-to&#8217; number for making test calls. &nbsp;Especially since there were local DIDs in most major metropolitan areas. &nbsp;If I had to make multiple successive test calls, I could dial 212777345, 4157773456 and 2137773456 and easily determine which call was which in the resulting call traces. &nbsp;Over the years, I would be surprised if I haven&#8217;t called Moviefone more than 5,000 times (I sometimes wondered if somebody at Moviefone ever noticed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so it was with genuine nostalgia when I heard last week that the number was being taken out of service, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/24\/business\/media\/moviefone-is-hanging-up-but-its-app-will-go-on.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as reported by the New York Times<\/a>. &nbsp;I suppose I knew it had to happen eventually, what with this &nbsp;mobile Internet thing becoming so popular. &nbsp; An yet, after 25 years it still seems too soon. &nbsp;So please take a moment with me now to commemorate the passing of an era while I search for a new object d&#8217;test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started working in the VoIP industry way back in 1999, I was living in Manhattan and used to call the local Moviefone DID (2127773456) on a regular basis to find the movie show times. Because it was so easy to remember, it became my &#8216;go-to&#8217; number for making test calls. &nbsp;Especially since there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}