niko2x wrote:i dunno, genma usually tells us not to do that b/c it kills bandwidth...so i guess i will have to pass the word as well.
Well, there's a link if you press the "Feature Artise" title on the main page now if people didn't already know. But, yeah, refreshing like crazy will kill the bandwidth. :(
singapore probably follows the british system (in almost everything!) and so ours is also 999.. ^^ ambulance and fire 995.. during the SARS scare there was a SARS ambulance at 993.. :sweat:
groink wrote:
A quick summary. Great Britian first had an emergency number "999" in the 1950's. New Zealand soon followed up with "111". Canada followed up with their own "999" system, then converted to "911" soon after... They had to many people dialing "999" by accident (probably kids). Also, remember that phones back then were only rotary, so dialing "999" took a lot longer than "911" (I'd say about two to three seconds longer). On a rotary phone, it takes a lot more effort to dial 911 by accident, so the number of fake/mistaken uses of the emergency number dwindled. In 1968, the U.S. adapted the "911" system.
--- groink
Hey groink how do you know all this stuff? I swear you're a walking encyclopedia!
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