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minus-squareameancow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away. The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-223 hours agoSquatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878). Also: rude!
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoThat’s amazing. I’m gonna tell my mom that, she’ll love it.
I lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away.
The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.
Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).
Also: rude!
That’s amazing. I’m gonna tell my mom that, she’ll love it.