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Back in the day of payphones and expensive long-distance calls, hitchhikers had a protocol for calling their parents/friends for free: they ring them up but don
by aasasd 6y ago
Back in the day of payphones and expensive long-distance calls, hitchhikers had a protocol for calling their parents/friends for free: they ring them up but don't say anything. The callee reads a list of expected answers (like the towns where the caller would stay), and the caller hangs up on the right answer, then dials again.
Not sure how payment worked and why you could listen for free—I'm only familiar with the method from written accounts.
- aetherspawn 6y agoSounds like 1800 reverse where you could send a short 2-3 second message that’s supposed to be your name. The other person would get an option to receive a call from <whoever> for $5, but usually <whoever> is the name or code of a location to be picked up. I must have done this 100 times as a kid. Once an angry man clued onto it, switched my line across and told me off. This is back in the days where mobile calls were expensive and very few kids had phones.
- aasasd 6y agoI think that's just good old Mr. Bob Itsaboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs