Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.
But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I appreciate your comment it makes a lot of sense how dialing could have decreased in usage. Also love your username!