Originally posted by WellHung
Did you enjoy utilizing dial-up service, Fin? Remember that cool sound it used to make?👍
absolutely not.
- someone else would always pick up the phone, disconnecting the connection
- there was no such thing as free long distance. any phone calls made outside the borough in NYC that i lived in were long distance.
the first 'computer' call i made was in the 70s to a doctors office using a dial-up phone, with a 7-character phone number where the first two characters were letters...using a 'modem' that literally cost as much as an average priced car. (decent cars back then were just a few grand. 10-grand was a super-luxury car)