I love the idea that we all had these separate but shared experiences!
@MagicM: I also wrote a wardialer in AmigaBasic. That sucker got a ton of use and did multiple exchanges(multiple groups of 10,000 phone numbers) back in the day. Nothing excited me more than coming home/waking up to a whole large list of "hits." Everything was fine until the day the phone companies invented *67. Dialing this returned the call to the last phone number who called you. This was later expanded into Caller ID.
LMAO!!! *67... I remember that going into effect and my dad telling me that people were calling us while I was at school saying we crank called them. Then *69 came out and took care of that (at least for caller id blocking). I found a phone number to a switch and was able to log in. Back then, I didnt know what they were for, but now, after I used to be a programmer for a company that did telephone billing, I did. Man, I could have done some %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! back then. LOL.
