MCI Friends and Family featuring cast of Star Trek

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

No reason for this really other than I came across it and thought it was loads of fun. :)

(Remember MCI?)

Comments

[sid]

D'awww! :-D

[memnet.livejournal.com]

I love this!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember MCI. It think it was called Microwave Communications or something like that back then. Late 1970s and I had taken my first job in California - having moved from upstate New York - and a friend told me about them (HA!). I do remember having to dial a local 7 digit number then wait for another dial tone and then dial the 10 digit long distance number. Really cheap but voice quality was poor too.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I remember doing that and the 1010 numbers. I'm pretty sure I had MCI at some point. Maybe my question should have been "remember long distance companies?" Now that calling internationally usually cost the same as calling next door, m kids will not understand why it was ever such a big deal to make a long distance call! :D

[adrienneee.livejournal.com]

I had completely forgotten the drama of long distance dialing until my mother moved to my town in Indiana from Dallas. She has a 214 cell number, and her new neighbors (it's a retirement community- picture neighborhoods of olds) wanted her local number. I couldn't figure out why until I realized...oh, they have land lines, not cell phones, so mom's cell phone would be a long distance call. It didn't really even occur to me that it could be a problem- my husband and I don't HAVE landline at our house anymore. Why should my house have three numbers for two people???

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

It used to be that you could tell where a person was located, more or less, by the area code. Then they started adding so many new ones like 972 to the Dallas area. Now, you can get cell phone numbers that have nothing to do with where you live. I bought a Tracfone a few years ago and I could have used any zip code to get a number, like I could have used my parents' so they could call me like it was a local number. But they use cell phones, too, so it really didn't matter.

[queer-kitten.livejournal.com]

MCI is still around!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, kind of. You don't really have much of a presence in popular media anymore, though.

I used to work for a financial printing company that processed the SEC paperwork for the MCI merger with Worldcom and what a huge pain in the ass that was. One of Worldcom's people came back to the area where I was working and he was bitching about how it was taking too long to process the documents. Um, yeah, because the pieces we were working on at the time were in Hungarian and none of us knew Hungarian! Sheesh.

I cannot say I wasn't a tad delighted when they went bankrupt. Thanks, Karma!

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :D