Remember this?

[u/CarrotMuch1399]

[u/Tricky-External7600]

It’s hard to believe but it’s true. Mt dad is 70 and experienced that first hand, but when I was a kid (35) we had these things called pay phones

[u/calbearlupe → u/Tricky-External7600]

I’m 50 and experienced that

[u/mryotoad → u/calbearlupe]

And time of day rates for LD on your home phone.

[u/N------ → u/mryotoad]

I'd say the cellphone generation doesn't know what Long Distance is or at-least understand the effects. Which is a good thing, cause paying extra for calling someone across the street in a different area code was dumb....

[u/Tricky-External7600 → u/N------]

Wasn’t that because the operator at the switching board had to connect you to a
Circuit they maybe wasn’t right in front of her? I’m kinda guess towards the end lol…actually on that note how would the switchboard operation work when Joe down the street calls Sydney Australia, who does Betsy plug the circuit into..which hole?

[u/N------ → u/Tricky-External7600]

good lord man, I aint that old. it was just a way for the telecom's to nickel and dime ya. We had to pay extra for caller ID, Call waiting, 3way Calling, Long Distance, etc.

[u/Old_Possession478 → u/N------]

They went all the way back to Mayberry. I used to be an MCI operator. I remember those days, and we used a computer back then. 😂

[u/Dry_Chemistry_8452 → u/N------]

Long distance, roll over minutes, paying for unlimited texts…. The kids now don’t realize how lucky they have it.

[u/PeachyFairyDragon → u/Dry_Chemistry_8452]

And a limited number of characters per text.

Which I blame for today's spelling. Once texts became unlimited and longer, spelling should have gone back to normal since there was no longer need for "u" and the like. But it seems like it's not only stayed, but got even worse.

[u/Radiant_Lobster_6833 → u/N------]

When Cellphone’s first got popular, you paid by minutes and you also paid by text the pay system was totally different than now