Who else remembers their childhood phone number but not the

[Jeebo]

22. Ours was TRINITY 2-1575

Shortened to TR2-1575, in numbers that becomes 872-1575. That was in the late 1950s and 1960s. How many of y'all are old enough to remember those words that were shortened to two-letter prefixes on phone numbers? And rotary dial phones? I guess I must be old or something.

Passwords? I'm always forgetting them. I'm actually pretty good at coming up with passwords that I can remember — characters in my favorite novels and TV shows and movies and songs, names of pets and childhood friends, etc. — but the problem is, the rules seem almost to be designed to make it impossible to come up with a password that you can actually remember, and you have to have at least one number and one letter and sometimes a special character from a list, and sometimes they require you to change your password often, and a minimum required number of characters, and you can't re-use one of your 10 last passwords, and other rules, and so, you end up having to have so many passwords that you can't remember which one you actually used. The password itself might not be that hard to remember, is what I'm saying, but you've had to use so many of them with so many small alterations that the current one gets lost in the mass of passwords. And also the alphanumeric requirement — did I use a digit 0 instead of the letter o, or did I use a digit 1 instead of the letter l, to get my required number? It gets to where there are so many possibilities for the password you might have used that you can't remember which one.

We only ever had one telephone number when I was a kid, but there are so many passwords that it gets impossible to keep track of them all, even though they're a lot more recent than a phone number from 60-plus years ago.

— Ron