This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
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).
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
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.