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Sometimes your purpose in life is to serve as a lesson to others. https://despair.com/products/mistakes https://despair.com/products/mistakes I learned very ra
by altairprime 5mo ago
Sometimes your purpose in life is to serve as a lesson to others. https://despair.com/products/mistakes https://despair.com/products/mistakes
I learned very rapidly from my local BBS networks that some people incurred extraordinarily large long distance bills dialing out of region. Wouldn’t have learned that the easy way if someone hadn’t learned it the hard way first.
- themafia 5mo agoThere was often a little table at the front of the white pages which would help you work out what the rate would be for any particular long distance call. In the Midwest you could get relatively cheap rates to BBSes several states away, as long as you were up at 2am.
- altairprime 5mo agoWe couldn’t afford that and also the second phone line for my endless hours of modem, so I took local-only instead of remote-occasionally.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoSomeone at work used the phrase "he's a case study waiting to happen" about on of their colleagues a while back, and that has stayed with me.