Also BBSes, which were also huge time sinks. I ended up bringing in a second phone line to my parents' house, and then a third line when I wanted to run a BBS. But the house was only wired for two, so ...

You do know that there are parts of the US, very rural places, that still rely on twisted copper wires for phone/internet...not even DSL, but dial up only. The telecoms were given money to wire them ...