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This was a wonderful time. Ran up the same massive phonebill (and same horrendous trouble), life changed for the better (with BBSs and then the web!) when the
by iamben 4y ago
This was a wonderful time.
Ran up the same massive phonebill (and same horrendous trouble), life changed for the better (with BBSs and then the web!) when the phone company started doing free evening calls to local numbers up to an hour long... Set the timer, disconnect, dial back in.
Still bizarre to think you were literally dialling a stranger's house, then you'd find a list of other numbers in some random text file on their BBS and just take a chance dialling those. The excitement of finding somewhere great!
- acheron 4y agoI stuck with local BBSs and don't think I ever wound up with a big phone bill that way. I did one time rack up a large bill when Sierra came out with their "Sierra Network" dialup service. I don't remember if that was a non-local call thing or a pay by minute bill for the service, but whatever it was that only lasted a month.