▲ 771 ▼ Etiquette dictated you covered the receiver and yelled very loudly for who it was for (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago (1 child) Unless you wanted to get online. Then everyone would call in the small window you were using the line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] robotica@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) I'm too young to have experienced dial-up, but wouldn't it be the case that people just wanted to go online and/or call people after school or work, so around the same time? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* Yep… fun times. Unless you were rich and had a dedicated internet line, there was always someone who got mad at you for jamming the line permalink fedilink source parent
[–] robotica@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) I'm too young to have experienced dial-up, but wouldn't it be the case that people just wanted to go online and/or call people after school or work, so around the same time? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* Yep… fun times. Unless you were rich and had a dedicated internet line, there was always someone who got mad at you for jamming the line permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* Yep… fun times. Unless you were rich and had a dedicated internet line, there was always someone who got mad at you for jamming the line permalink fedilink source parent
