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Comment by aaronax

2 years ago

T9 was fine for typing and probably hundreds of millions of people used it.

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heleninboodler  2 years ago

It only worked because it had to, given phones just had keypads back then. As soon as qwerty-with-your-thumbs was available, everyone abandoned T9 and never looked back.

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