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My story was being a 10 year old in the mid-90s and dialing up the Apogee BBS using a number displayed in some shareware game's splashscreen. Turns out that hou
by mikepurvis 5y ago
My story was being a 10 year old in the mid-90s and dialing up the Apogee BBS using a number displayed in some shareware game's splashscreen. Turns out that hour-long call to Garland Texas (from Toronto) resulted in a really hefty phone bill, which I was asked to help out with since I had a paper route at the time.
- wolrah 5y agoI learned a similar lesson about the difference between LATAs and area codes around the time AOL went to unlimited. All of the Toledo numbers were constantly busy, so I tried other "local" numbers and ended up discovering that the Findlay number would usually answer. I set that as the default and thought nothing more of it, while all of us used it for hours a day. The phone bill that arrived at the end of the month was quite large.