Let me set the scene. It was 1997 or 1998, we just got phone service in the Barracks which let us finally get on the Internet. I was showing my roommate around the Web and then we decided to jump on IRC. I was showing him how to use mIRC.
roommate: No, stop. I don't want to make any long distance calls.
me: WTF? Your ISP is local.
roommate: You're calling Phoenix! That's long distance.
me: No, it's a server in Phoenix on the Internet. There's no long distance on the Internet.
roommate: I don't know about that, that doesn't sound right.
I was connecting to the Phoenix Undernet server.
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