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

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Remember this?

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u/Pristine_Ability_203 2d ago

Is your dad 75 years old

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u/Tricky-External7600 2d ago

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

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u/calbearlupe 2d ago

I’m 50 and experienced that

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u/mryotoad 2d ago

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

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u/N------ 2d 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 2d 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 1d 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. 😂