cm0002@lemmy.cafe to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month 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 month 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·edit-21 month 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 month 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.