Subj : Internet transit alternatives
To : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri May 21 2021 06:25 pm
Hello Kurt Weiske!
** On Friday 21.05.21 - 07:05, Kurt Weiske wrote to Deepend:
>> What's a "phone line"? Some extinct species, I'm led to believe...
De>> Let's not be hating on the good ol' copper lines lol.
KW> Imagine if we had the old POTS lines combined with
KW> nationwide free calling, like most cell phone plans have
KW> nowadays. The dial-up era was designed around prohibitive
KW> toll charges.
Around the time when I was operating a 2-line BBS in late 90's
to 2003, the phone companies already had LD plans that offered
nation-wide unlimited or limited calls for a fixed $20/mo or
so.
I had once such $20 plan for 500 minutes/mo or something like
that.
It worked well for moving mail to two LD hubs for a couple of
nets and for making crash calls to a few LD relatives that I
set up as points.
KW> Although, the local bbs.scene grew because of it, and
KW> people called local boards that could have gettogethers in
KW> meatspace.
Yes.. the local aspect was a particular characeristic of
calling local boards (and the potential to meet the people you
were conversing with) back then.
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