Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
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#2Callback was a serious business in the 90s, and it helped end ridiculous international call rates.
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#3Interesting read :) It reminded me my childhood :D
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#4In case you didn’t know, this media group was started by Sofia Schmidt, Daughter of Eric Schmidt. It focuses on tech stories from other countries besides the USA.
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#5I remember doing this when I was a kid.
We also had an understanding of the number of based on the number of rings, too: 1 ring and hang up was when my aunt got home and 2 rings was my cousin got home. They could call us long distance to let us know they got home OK.
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#7I recall in Ukraine in nienties some mobile operators did not charge for the first few seconds of a call (I think it was 2 or 3). There was an art of communication around that...
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#9I remember doing this when I was a kid. We also had an understanding of the number of based on the number of rings, too: 1 ring and hang up was when my aunt got home and 2 rings was my cousin got home. They could call us long distance to let us know they got home OK.
Yeah this was big among my age group in Australia too, in the late 80s early 90s. Pay phones only charged if the other end picked up, so it was an easy way to tell dad to pick you up or that you’d be late.
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#10We used to use payphones, there was 2 seconds you could speak before it would hang up.
ring ring, ring ring, MUM ring ring, ring ring, PICK ring ring, ring ring, ME UP