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Filter:   • by Gondola (189182) on Wednesday April 09, 2014
@09:21AM (#46703867)      Back in the day, I knew people that
could provide me with magic phone numbers that would allow me to
dial anywhere in the world, for free. Imagine that, right? I was
only like 13. Statute of limitations and all that. This was in
the 80s I guess.      Anyway, I remember we used to somehow dial
into a Darthmouth mainframe and from there we could do a couple
things. They had some kind of multiuser Zork (or Zork-ish) text
adventure that you could play. I tried it a couple times but I
couldn't get into it at the time, even though I loved Infocom
games.      The biggest appeal was getting into the chat system.
There, we could chat with what I assume were Darthmouth college
students. "JOIN XYZ" I think was the command from the main menu.
There was this cool VT display of who was in the chat, so you
could tell how many people were there. I used to chat with these
peop