999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number

Re:999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number by TeMPOraL on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:12PM (#14673638)

There was an article on Tedium just ~1 week ago about the emergency numbers!

http://tedium.co/2017/06/20/911-emergency-system-history/

It references the birth of 999, but then continues with the story of emergency numbers in the US. Definitely an interesting read.

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Re:999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number by notwhoyouthink on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:26PM (#14673693)

Yikes, the font on that website is incredibly distracting. Hard enough that I went and downloaded Readability for Chrome just to get through the article.

Reading more than a sentence caused my eyes to sort of glaze over and even when trying to focus I was reading but not grasping. Can't say I've ever had a font do that to me.

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Re:999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number by aquadrop on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:04PM (#14673836)

In cases like this, you can just "inspect" on the text block, find the rule for the font-family and set whatever font you like, no need for extensions :)

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Re:999: The world's oldest emergency services phone number by 4rt on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:00PM (#14674635)

firefox reading mode (i believe it's the same devs as that chrome extension? icbw) is the first button i press on most sites. i couldn't do without it.

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