Multi-tap is what you’re thinking of. T9 was the predictive algorithm, where you only had to hit each key once, so “fluent” could be entered as 358368.
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T9 may have worked fine for english, but as a Swede, I remember it being shit for compound words like:
"Slussvaktarbostadshembiträde"
"järnvägstationskiosk"
"Diskrimineringsombudsman"
These are obviously obtuse examples, but all are valid swedish words.