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[โ€“] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When Skype was new it had FREE calling to land lines. My friends and I would make so many fun calls. So many fun times. Then Microsoft bought it and killed the free calling.

[โ€“] AugustWest@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You could do that with net2phone using the internet in 1996. Skype doing it 7 years later wasn't that amazing.

Thankfully, we are beyond long distance phone calls (mostly). In the 80's we did something a little different: traded lists of long distance phone codes and made free calls that way.