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[–] KKSakura@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BaconIsAVeg@kbin.social 1 points 1 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?