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Post #2027475

2025-09-17 19:17 UTC

@401matthall There are so many parallels to my teen years on irc… I have been 🤯 My mother was doing this from about age 13-14 - she met my father at 17 or so (nowhere near the first person she met), they liked each other, had a few dates, became boyfriend/girlfriend, few years later I appeared. Turns out teens causing trouble is not just for modern social media. 😁 Apparently the max sizes of the groups tended to be 20-30 people at one go - so pretty niche, and I have no idea if the radio staff have any idea now this was going on.

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  • @kitten_tech@fosstodon.org 2025-09-17 19:27

    @leymoo @401matthall the station probably had 20-30 incoming lines so that was the maximum number that could be on at once! People doing this kind of thing in the US were called phone phreaks, if that gives you a lead - I don't know if we had a different UK colloquialism?

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