Ertebolle@kbin.socialtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum.
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1 year agoHah, if this happened nowadays you’d have to sign up for a $1000/month subscription for 100 words a month on a 5-year contract, pay a $35/word overage fee, and if you didn’t use all 100 words in a particular month, you could pay $5/word to roll over up to 10 of them to the next month. And if you try to cancel your subscription after those 5 years, they put you on hold for 3 hours and then accidentally hang up on you.
My “Not Haunted” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt