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I don't remember a time when including area codes weren't standard, especially nowadays where it's required for any digital services.
The country code is typically handwaved, which is +1 for America.
In the 90s if you share the same area code, you don't need to enter it. This started to be a problem when phone numbers started to run out especially in metro areas. I remember putting in the area code because you needed the area code to dial in to ISPs when I was using a 56k modem.
My family got a brand new Pentium 3 computer that came with Windows ME. Part of the install/setup/onboarding process of this OS was connecting to the internet via its dialup modem. My father's work was our ISP, it was a local number. We left the area code field blank, put in the 7 digit phone number, and the software wouldn't accept that. The software required the area code field to be filled in. We filled it in, and it pumped the modem noises through to the speakers, where we heard "doo Daa DEEE It is not necessary to dial the area code for a local call. Please hang up and dial the phone number without the area code."
ENGINEERING!
When I was growing up we didn't use the area code, so the phone number I still have burned into my brain despite it not having been active for nearly 20 years was 8 digits, beginning with 3. Area codes, if we had used them, would have added two digits, the first of which is always 0 in Australia.
That's landlines. Mobile phones were only just starting to become popular when I first moved overseas as a kid. They're always 10 digits, and always start with 04. In both landlines and mobiles, you drop the leading 0 if you're going to add the country code.
In Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Austria, mobile phone numbers without a country code have a leading zero. If there's somewhere that doesn't do this, I suspect they are an outlier.
wait, does that mean australia only has (at most) 9 area codes, for the whole country? wild.
It's a sparsely-populated country. We actually only use 4. 02 for NSW and the ACT, 03 for Victoria and Tasmania, 07 for Queensland, and 08 for SA, WA, and the NT.
There are then a further 2 digits (or 1 digit for the most populous areas) used for more fine-grained regions, like 073 for Brisbane and 0747 for Townsville. But at least when I was young, those digits would be part of the phone number you would memorise and type, even for other people in the same subregion. I'm not sure if they were compulsory or not. So my phone number as a child was 3XXX XXXX. If I had been on NSW trying to reach that, it wouldn't have worked, and I'd have needed to know that it's 07 3XXX XXXX. And internationally it would be 617 3XXX XXXX.
that is so fascinating. i'll freely admit that i've never had the need or the opportunity to travel abroad, nor to call another country, so this is all completely novel info to me. thanks for sharing.