In Denmark we had a service called “Miss Time” (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/
In Denmark we had a service called “Miss Time” (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/
Phone companies used to employ somebody to sit and answer those calls!
And they probably made enough to support a family of 4 with a house.
F for the now-unemployed time callers 😞
We had a similar service, you could dial POPCORN and get the time.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11853891/you-used-to-be-able-to-call-pop-corn-and-get-the-time-what-happened-to-that