• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This chart literally only goes up to 1981, and specifically refers to phone calls. Internet still isn’t commonly available everywhere in the world, or US for that matter.

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      1 month ago

      The original post was about how it’s cheap to make long distance calls now versus in the past. That’s true! In that spirit I don’t see any benefit to distinguishing between analog and digital calls. But point taken about the time axis on the chart.