And before they broke up ma bell you weren't allowed to plug your own electronics into the phone jacks. [That's why we had acoustic coupled modems existed.] Yo

And before they broke up ma bell you weren't allowed to plug your own electronics into the phone jacks. [That's why we had acoustic coupled modems existed.] You also had to wait a month to get a phone line hooked up too. Long distance cost dollars per minute. Breaking up ma bell was the best thing that happened to telecommunications in the USA.