CallistoSatisfying my unscientific curiosity here. Please boost for visibility.
How old are you?
25 or younger
26-40
41-65
66 or older
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Frenezul0_oYes
No
Remind me later
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I have dialed into a BBS before
What's a BBS?
What does "dial" mean?
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@Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz That last option...
I've actually heard "What's a landline?" before. 
Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹Years ago I was in a mountain refuge with my son. When we got there I asked him to call his mother to tell her that everything was okay. He looked at the phone and asked me "how do you use it?"
It was an old telephone with a dial disk... 😁😁😁
Cam@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz I’ve seen a post somewhere of a person asking what the rj11 sockets in their newly acquired home were. 👴
@dawcas @agturcz @catsalad @Frenezul0_o Oh man. Dial-up internet and voice connection for every adult in the household, more if anybody worked from home, a fax machine, maybe an internet connection for the kids. So many frickin phone lines and exponentially more RJ11 jacks!!
Dusk2025@dawcas @agturcz @callisto @catsalad @Frenezul0_o
This reminded me, I predate the usage of RJ11. When I was a child an insulated wire passed through a small circular hole in the face plate in the wall, each of the two, or four, wires were held in place with a screw, the company owned the phone itself and I _think_ it was illegal to work on it yourself. Of course I was the same person then as I am now so, yes, I took them apart to see what was going on....
southie wusky@catsalad at my last IT job one of my coworkers is in higher education for cybersecurity and i have no higher education at all. he didn't know the difference between VGA and DB9 serial ports until i pointed it out, he had never used a serial port before
OldGeek@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz Or what is a party line. Remember my dad trying to make a call and losing it trying to get all the kids off the line.
@Frenezul0_o @oldgeek @catsalad @agturcz And we couldn't talk on it in a thunderstorm, but we could watch the sparks fly out of the receiver.
@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz i thought you were talking about some operation older people have hahah
@Frenezul0_o @catsalad @agturcz I don't honestly remember but if I did, I didn't spend much time there. I did dial into CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy at various times.
$0.32 per minute "local toll charges" doesn't sound like much until you've been online for two hours every day the month before your phone bill came, and then also you paid for the services by the minute. Yikes.
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@Frenezul0_o I do know what "dial" means, and I know what a BBS is, but I've never dialed into one... I started with caramail then upgraded to IRC, and now, well... fedi. Also scrolled some USENET forums at one point n life.
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