On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 3:14 AM Steve Lewis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Then I started thinking about "how were they even advertised? having lots > of phone numbers in different area codes would have been expensive, maybe > they only advertised in a few cities back in those days?"
It would have been very expensive, which is why they had the links to Telenet and Tymnet. Telenet and Tymnet provided the phone numbers and is how most people connected.