====== Remembering Telephone Numbers ======

| **Field** | Basic Lifeskills |
| **Went Obsolete** | 2002 |
| **Made Obsolete By** | cell phone |
| **Knowledge Assumed** | understanding of phone number structure |
| **When useful** | When cellphone dies, electronic records lost, or internet connected device not available |

The ability to effortlessly phones numbers from memory, potentially remembering many, many numbers was very handy prior to the advent of cellphone and other small electronic gadgets with memory and/or connection to the internet. If you had a bad memory, you would have create a written record of everyone's phone number to carry around or keep posted near the land line telephone.