Bye bye long distance services?

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hal wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
[quote=hal]
Emergency Interrupt Service - I forgot about that one. Been a LONG, LONG time since I've heard of anyone doing that one.

I suppose that kids these day don't even know what a 'busy signal' is.

I had no idea that could even still be done...
That's because you'd need to have two people with land lines and one without call-waiting. VERY rare these days.

When I was little, I remember it being done often. It almost ALWAYS involved teenaged girls on the phone. Back then it was uncommon for a family to have more than one line in the house. I remember LOTS of arguments with ATT folks about when it could and could not be evoked. More than once, I remember that result was that the person being called had intentionally left the phone off the hook (remember THAT?)
Did it any number of times when I was a teenager driving broken down old beaters in our Minnesota winters, having three younger siblings tying up the phone. The operator would listen in to make sure it was a legit reason (I could hear when the operator disconnected.)

I even remember when there were living, breathing operators you could get by dialing zero. Try that nowadays.