“I still remember when AT&T charged me $1.50 to get a phone number from information!”
I still remember when it was always free. And, dialing “O” for the Operator was, too. As well as getting connected to a busy number, a long distance number, finding out the “time and charges” for a particular call, etc., etc.
Speaking of time...remember when you could call “time”, for free, and would get either a live Operator or a recorded message with the correct Time, and sometimes, Date, too?
AT&T stopped theirs in early 2007.
“At the tone, the time will be....”
As Archie would say, ‘those were the days’.