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[–] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In the very early days of the Internet, if your mom's friend called to gossip it meant you had to reset the 5 hour countdown on downloading that single image.

MOMMMMM!!!!

Happy mother's day all

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We didn't have call waiting, so for us it was literally just no using the internet before 9pm because you didn't know who might call

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    For those too young to know, call waiting is standard now your phone tells you when you get a call while on another call, but this used to be a paid upgrade feature and if you didn't have it, the person calling you would get a busy signal (instead of ringing it would just beep) and you had no way to know.

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