How You Got Your Phone Number | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...

How did we get area codes for our phone numbers? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the interesting history of area codes and how they came to be.

Discover how early area codes in high-population cities were determined and the underlying logic. How did major cities get their area codes? What’s the area code for Cape Canaveral? Neil has fun with phones, explains what it was like to use a rotary phone, and explores how the ingenuity of the past still has traces in the present.

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1:05 - The Age of Rotary Phones
4:23 - Area Codes in Populous Cities
10:12 - New Age Area Codes
13:50 - Whistling Touchtones & Fun With Phones