Zip codes seem to follow a logical order across the country, but area codes seem somewhat willy nilly. How did it come to be and what is the system.
2006-12-22 07:22:37 · 1 answers · asked by Anna H 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Wikipedia has a good article on this ... but basically, the largest cities were given area codes that required the least number of pulls on the old rotary phones (212, 213, 312 ... NY, LA, Chicago ...) and from there they were assigned by a committee.
Until the 90s, of course, area codes could only have a 0 or a 1 as the second digit ... and now can have any number - and the number of pulls is no longer important since probably 99.9% of all phones in use today are touch tone.
2006-12-22 07:31:30 · answer #1 · answered by kentata 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
population... just a guess...
2006-12-22 07:30:21 · answer #2 · answered by Lenneth's true challenge 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋