Comments on: Hot Tip for Domainers: 853-1212 http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/ Surviving Internet advertising, e-learning and new technology Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Software Santa http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Software Santa Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:41:11 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/#comment-127 Here it is April of 2011 and I dial 853-1212 for the CORRECT Time and get a "disconnected" message instead. Typing the number into Google points here: I discover that my irreplaceable time service number was scrapped 4 years ago! Geeze: do I feel like Rip-van-Winkle! What a long freakin nap! What'd I miss? I don't have a cell phone, and I am not in front of a computer all of the time: so I RELIED upon this service and its legendary "to the millisecond" accuracy (a couple of times a decade at least ;p ). (Especially when I NEEDED Accuracy!) I dumped at&t last month for a local/long distance phone from my Cable TV provider and saved big bucks. And finding out this bit of sad news today makes me very happy that I canned their crappy (dis-)service forever last month: and I hereby resolve to NEVER subscribe to ANY at&t service ever again! When they were AT&T they were like a monolith: a rock of Gibraltar. Then they splintered and fragmented and spun off and sub-divided until today they have no solidity: a pile/puddle of stinking sinking quicksand! They HAVE shot themselves in the foot! You are Right: that number is solid gold! and they are wasting it. (retards) Here it is April of 2011 and I dial 853-1212 for the CORRECT Time and get a “disconnected” message instead. Typing the number into Google points here: I discover that my irreplaceable time service number was scrapped 4 years ago!

Geeze: do I feel like Rip-van-Winkle! What a long freakin nap! What’d I miss?

I don’t have a cell phone, and I am not in front of a computer all of the time: so I RELIED upon this service and its legendary “to the millisecond” accuracy (a couple of times a decade at least ;p ). (Especially when I NEEDED Accuracy!)

I dumped at&t last month for a local/long distance phone from my Cable TV provider and saved big bucks. And finding out this bit of sad news today makes me very happy that I canned their crappy (dis-)service forever last month: and I hereby resolve to NEVER subscribe to ANY at&t service ever again!

When they were AT&T they were like a monolith: a rock of Gibraltar. Then they splintered and fragmented and spun off and sub-divided until today they have no solidity: a pile/puddle of stinking sinking quicksand!

They HAVE shot themselves in the foot! You are Right: that number is solid gold! and they are wasting it. (retards)

]]> By: William R. Cousert http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/comment-page-1/#comment-61 William R. Cousert Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:52:59 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/#comment-61 It's been over two years since 853-1212 got canned and I still find myself reaching for the phone to call it. There HAS to be a way to bring it back. Maybe Microsoft? They own 800-555-TELL. This would be a great local number for that service. It’s been over two years since 853-1212 got canned and I still find myself reaching for the phone to call it.

There HAS to be a way to bring it back. Maybe Microsoft? They own 800-555-TELL. This would be a great local number for that service.

]]> By: Nicole http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Nicole Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:31:50 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/#comment-60 Yeah, I really do miss it, since the number is stuck in my brain for the rest of my life, I wish I could remember the numbers I need like that. By the way, does anyone remember the number you dialed to get that "party line", in the '80's...that was always fun. Yeah, I really do miss it, since the number is stuck in my brain for the rest of my life, I wish I could remember the numbers I need like that. By the way, does anyone remember the number you dialed to get that “party line”, in the ’80′s…that was always fun.

]]> By: PAT SOUL http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/comment-page-1/#comment-59 PAT SOUL Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:08:30 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/2007/08/29/hot-tip-for-domainers-853-1212/#comment-59 It would be nice if I could set my watch or vcr to the correct time and not the (about) time.........This is ridiculous that we can no longer get the "correct time" anymore......... It would be nice if I could set my watch or vcr to the correct time and not the (about) time………This is ridiculous that we can no longer get the “correct time” anymore………

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