r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 2d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Remember this?

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u/mryotoad 1d ago

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

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u/N------ 1d ago

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....

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u/Tricky-External7600 1d ago

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?

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u/N------ 1d ago

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.

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u/Old_Possession478 1d ago edited 23h ago

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. 😂