Kim Komando

Now, of course, everybody across the country is trying to figure out, okay, what was my childhood phone number?

What was that?

What was that?

That's kind of cool.

So you want to have it as your cell phone number.

Oh, I see.

You know, error codes don't really mean too much anymore, really, because you can have any error codes you want.

Well, of course, like you mentioned, you could call the person and say, Hi, this used to be my phone number like 30, 40 years ago, and I'd like to have it back.

How do you feel about that?

You could use reverse lookup service like White Pages.

And there's also Anywho.

The other thing that you could do is just reach out to your phone provider and ask them if that number is available.

Now, once you have the number, assume you're going to get the number.

Okay, so then how do you get that onto your cell phone?

Well, it's actually pretty easy.

You can use a service like Google Voice.

And once you have that phone number, that landline number, because I doubt it's going to be a cell phone number, it's going to be a landline number, I'm sure.

No, I'm sure, but I bet you it is.

Is that you can pay Google 20 bucks and they will port that number to Google Voice.

And so that this way you could have that phone number, but it would actually be a Google Voice number.