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by kalleboo 3280 days ago
On Swedish rotary phones the 0 was on the other side (one pulse)
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What?! What happened when you made an international call, did you have to subtract 1 from all the digits?
In 1965 there wasn't much international direct dialling yet; mainly to neighbouring countries. The rest was done via an operator. International exchanges tended to buffer the entire called phone number anyway, even back in electromechanical times, which meant they could also translate the pulses if that would have been necessary.
0 indexed! :)