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wombatpm
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At one time it was routine to have your SSN and Drivers License # printed on your checks. And in 1988 my student ID number as university was my SSN.
bee_rider
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But 1988 is officially The Past, ask any millennial, my self image can’t deal with the fact that our anecdotes objectively belong side-by-side.
pavel_lishin
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At the risk of instantly drying into dust by suggesting that 2002 is also The Past, but my SSN was also my student ID then.
QuercusMax
on Dec 15, 2023
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In 2002 my school (Kent State) was in the process of phasing out SSNs as student numbers. I was working as a student IT employee in one of the departments and spent quite a bit of time updating systems to remove the use of SSNs.
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