If you lived somewhere rural, long distance charges were very limiting. Even a call to the next town could be a lot of money. So you would spend a fair amount o

If you lived somewhere rural, long distance charges were very limiting. Even a call to the next town could be a lot of money. So you would spend a fair amount of time figuring out ways around that. Open PBX's that would let you transfer to a dial-out, or dragging your computer to a library that had some unprotected RJ11/12 jacks, etc.