I hope you'll be a very successful actor one day. Good luck🍀, I'll keep you name in mind and steal your phrase. Be save, be sound and be very very round!
Hey Max! I'm the girl from Bristol who you talked to the other day. I'm so sorry that I was so awkward on the phone, I just didn't expect you to actually answer and it shocked me a bit. I also can't talk on the phone, I prefer talking face to face. Thank you for talking with me anyway and I appreciate how lovely you were to me, despite my awkwardness. Thanks Max and I hope we can talk again some time x
LET ME SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. +1 was assigned to Canada, because Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was a Canadian. But then the USA piggybacked on and also got the +1 country code.
Hello. You are both correct - Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, but by the time he invented the telephone at his lab in Boston, USA, he had moved to Canada and was a Canadian citizen.
LET ME SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. +1 was assigned to Canada, because Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was a Canadian. But then the USA piggybacked on and also got the +1 country code.
I clicked on this immediately wondering if you heard mine haha I haven't even seen past 1 min and I'm assuming NO because you've got so many. UPDATE: he didn't g*ddamnit!
I actually laughed out loud at your sketch :D The accent was perfect! I'm American myself (and Canadian - Canada shares the same code) and a proud owner of a +1 phone number.
Max new idea for a series: max's quest to find his doppelganger. get all your followers to share this and after finding him do a zoom call with your doppelganger
Wait. I'm German and we are taught in school the telephone was invented by a German guy named Philipp Reis, in 1861, that is. So before Bell. But I wouldn't be too sure somebody else wasn't even earlier?
Ahh I got so scared when you said you were going to go through some of the voicemails. Max, you really are a kind and genuine guy and I have so much respect for the hours you put into your videos.
I called from India and couldn't do it because my service did not support international call...🥺 But I anyway want to tell you...your are totally my favourite British person (and I am an idian, remember?) Love your videos and I always look forward to them. I hope you grow and grow and spread your quirk everywhere in the world, much like the British did their reign once upon a time😀 Love ya
Fun Fact: The inventor of phone numbers was Canadian, so originally the +1 should've been exclusive to Canada, but off course the US being the US also got +1.
@@RGC_animation You just completely made that up. That is not the reason why the US and Canada share the +1 country code. There is no "inventor of phone numbers". Canada and the US developed their phone systems simultaneously, mostly done by the Bell Telephone company which was set up in Alexander Graham Bell's Chicago-based lab, while his family lived in Brantford, Ontario. Because of the connectedness of these system, calling from US to Canada required no special switching, it was like routing any other non-local call to the operators. When the need for international dialing codes came up (which was surprisingly not until around the 1960s - largely because calling internationally was usually just a matter of talking to an operator and giving them a UK phone number for example) - this switching system integration meant that the operator in the UK could route a call to either the US or Canada through the same circuit. Routing a call from UK to Brazil required a different circuit because they had a different phone system, and likewise calling from the US to Brazil required the US operator to route it through the international line to Brazil. (in fact... if this ever happened that early..., the UK operator probably routed a Brazil call through the US operator who then routed it to Brazil, and the dialing code existed to let the US operator know how to route it) Zone 1 originally encompassed: Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras [now Belize], Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Antilles, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, USA, US Virgin Islands. After the North American Numbering Plan, countries were assigned three-digit area codes under the common country prefix 1. Countries that still use the prefix 1 include Canada, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, Montserrat, Sint Maarten, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis North American Numbering Plan uses +1 xxx Africa uses +2xx Europe uses +3xx, +4xx South America uses +5xx Southeast Asia and Oceania uses +6xx Russia and neighboring countries uses +7 xxx East Asia uses +8xx Middle East and South Asia uses +9xx
For anyone in a RU-vid loop who wants to procrastinate more by knowing why us has +1 as their calling code, here’s why (copied and pasted I’m not an animal). Enjoy : the US shares country code 1 with Canada and several countries in the Caribbean. It’s a long story. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and he founded Bell Telephone Company, which was THE telephone company in most of the United States and Canada. Bell was Canadian (originally Scottish) and did his work in both Canada and the US, so he developed the same system for both countries. When pulse dialing was invented, 1 pulse meant 1, 2 pulses meant 2, etc, 9 pulses meant 9 and 10 pulses mean 0. Unfortunately there were a lot of random pulses on the early lines line so they couldn’t use 1 as the first digit of a telephone number because it would lock up the exchange waiting for the next digit. So they could use only the numerals 2 through 9 at the first digit of a telephone number, since 0 was used to call the operator. Telephone numbers also never used 0 or 1 as the second digit. When they invented long distance direct dialing, since 1 was unused and the lines had much less noise, they used 1 to mean call distance, 2-9 meant a telephone number, and 0 meant operator. Thus you dialed 1+telephone number to get a long distance number in your own area and 1+area code+telephone number to get a phone in another area code. Area codes always had a second digit of 0 or 1, whereas telephone numbers never did, so the equipment could distinguish between area codes and telephone numbers. The North American Numbering Plan was originally devised in the 1940s by AT&T for the Bell System and independent telephone operators in North America. It is relatively consistent compared to numbering systems in the rest of the world. While the NANP was designed as a 10-digit closed plan, international direct distance dialing required extensive modifications in switching systems to accommodate an open international numbering plan for telephone numbers from seven to twelve digits. See: North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia When international direct dialing was introduced, they arbitrarily assigned 1 to North America and used it to mean “long distance within country code 1” so nobody in North America had to change their dialing habits. The rest of the world had to fall in line and were assigned their own country codes. These are all 2 or 3 digits long, except for Russia, which is 7. See: International direct dialing - Wikipedia Country code 1 is the US, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean, 2x or 2xx is mostly Africa, 3x or 3xx or 4x or 4xx are Europe, 5x or 5xx are in the Americas outside Canada and the US, 6x or 6xx is Southeast Asia or Oceania, 7 is Russia, 7xx is other parts of the former Soviet Union, 8x or 8xx are East Asia, and 9x or 9xx are Middle East or parts of South Asia.
Your American accent had me laughing to tears 😂😂😂 as an American I've made that same odd connection that +1 was chosen for a country code, and found it funny. I dont talk like that personally but many do.. and damn that was good. 😆😆👏👏
UK and Poland have a lot in common (mainly plumbers I hear) - in Poland we are fighting for basic abortion rights right now. Maybe u could interview Polish women in Britain on that topic? Just a suggestion.
It pleases me greatly that you may eventually get round to our voicemail - we gave you a fun fact but can't remember what it was now so... maybe not that fun. Mobile ends in 666321 if curious and bored 😂 Be safe, be sound, be very very round
Today I learnt something new. The importance of +1, what it is and why it’s there. Am an American. Feel like that’s smth I should have already know and/or is/should be common knowledge
