cm0002@lemmy.cafe to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoYes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the timewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down13
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minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoIt wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.
minus-square0x0@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoParent wouldn’t want to change from 56k to cable. Parent was shown the wonders of IRC. One phone bill later… We’d better get cable.
minus-squareXavienth@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoYou’d have to be calling all hours of the day (except the 6 hours of school during school days) for five weeks to reach $2,100 at that rate.
It wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.
Parent wouldn’t want to change from 56k to cable.
Parent was shown the wonders of IRC.
One phone bill later… We’d better get cable.
You’d have to be calling all hours of the day (except the 6 hours of school during school days) for five weeks to reach $2,100 at that rate.