There was a point in the mid 90s at university when I didn't have a phone number, neither a land-land at my rented shared house nor any sort of mobile. If I nee

There was a point in the mid 90s at university when I didn't have a phone number, neither a land-land at my rented shared house nor any sort of mobile. If I needed to call anyone I used the public phone on the corner a minute or so walk from the house. And that was fine. Phones were expensive and I barely needed to talk to anyone that much and the public phones were fine for the occasional times I did need to. The people I did want to contact (my friends and the teachers) were all on email, which still worked back then. There was a point when some friends and myself considered clubbing together to purchase a domain name. We had an IP address at the university and we could have installed a copy of Apache on it. We almost went through with it until the point when it asked for a phone number. None of us had a phone number. We considered giving the phone number of a public phone but we imagined someone would have to be there to answer it all day. Years later, I recalled that event and wondered what would have happened. I asked on a popular Q&A forum which I thought was on-topic but I was very quickly informed of my error. The two answers that got through kinda missed the point. https://serverfault.com/questions/360602/how-to-register-a-domain-when-you-have-no-phone-number https://serverfault.com/questions/360602/how-to-register-a-d...