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Originally Posted by rowan
Unless you had 'special' ways of calling numbers on the other side of the world for low or zero cost... 
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I did! A friend and I used to "phreak". We even had software that ran on TRS-80's and one for a PC that would play the extra touch-tones usually inaccessible to regular phones.
I used to connect with a friend to share software that was long distance from me normally. To get around it, we took advantage of some phone numbers here in Montreal that we called Loop-Lines. Basically, they were a bunch of phone number pairs that ended in 1194 or 1195 (I think). So if one of us called 645-1194 and the other called 645-1195, we'd be able to talk over long distance for free, or hook up our modems and swap software all night too. Fun.