How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is There a Local Culture to Long Distance Calling?
Most subscribers paid a flat monthly rate for unlimited calling within a local calling area. Local calling area was defined differently, and it didn't follow standard political boundaries. For a long time, if you were placing a long distance call out of your area, you would have to talk to a human operator to place the call. Even when long distance dyling was automated, many people still in the habit of calling the operator to find out how much it was going to cost before they placed the call.
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