From my archive for your amusement a little pre-internet history:
In the 1980s a company, PC Pursuit, made it possible to avoid long distance* telephone calls to dial in** to thousands of BBS systems***.
Here is a large sample of those BBS numbers (attached).
https://share.counter.social/s/5cd8ca
*, **, ** See, in ye olde days, phone calls could be local or long distance.... you know what, just read this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit
@b4cks4w I remember all this, I started working in High Tech, hard disc drives in particular, in 1976. What changes have occurred since is astounding.
@b4cks4w The Hewletts and Packards that were around when I started would be disgusted by the Silicon Valley of today.