• KKSakura
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    171 year ago

    having flashbacks to a time telcoms charged $$ per text. what a desperate move to extract every bit of $$ from the literal sharing of information

    • DoucheAsaurus
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      81 year ago

      Man that was so bullshit, text messages piggyback on the wireless handshake so they cost telecoms literally zero money.

    • BaconIsAVeg
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      11 year ago

      Or when CallerID was an additional $8/month. It’s fucking DNS for telephone numbers. Can you imagine if ISP’s had charged extra for DNS and everyone decided to just memorize IP addresses instead?