Remembering Sports Phone and 976-1313: When sports info was a phone call away | Newsday:
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In the prehistoric pre-Internet era, Sports Phone was a daily lifeline to sports news and scores. I rang up a lot of charges dialing the 976-1313 number in my day. The key was making the calls at work (not me, of course) to avoid those charges.
I did develop a workaround when businesses began to block those 976 numbers that was mildly successful at the time. You would call the long distance version of the number, these would typically not be blocked. The scores were the same whether served by the Los Angeles version, or the New York guys.
Now, I also remember the dial up weather services and the one for the correct time also. They were quite useful as well.
Rumor had it there were other lines where adult activities were purported to take place. Good thing they broke up AT&T. That's just plain dirty.
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In the prehistoric pre-Internet era, Sports Phone was a daily lifeline to sports news and scores. I rang up a lot of charges dialing the 976-1313 number in my day. The key was making the calls at work (not me, of course) to avoid those charges.
I did develop a workaround when businesses began to block those 976 numbers that was mildly successful at the time. You would call the long distance version of the number, these would typically not be blocked. The scores were the same whether served by the Los Angeles version, or the New York guys.
Now, I also remember the dial up weather services and the one for the correct time also. They were quite useful as well.
Rumor had it there were other lines where adult activities were purported to take place. Good thing they broke up AT&T. That's just plain dirty.
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